Title - Weedflower Author: Kadohata, Cynthia Publisher: Atheneum Books Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors and becomes friends with a local Indian boy. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 3494 7+ 1100 Amazon RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels Sentences Total Words Different Words Max Word/Sent 47 Total # of Words 3443 # of Different Words 951 Ave Word/.Sent 12 Hi Freq occurs 2497 72.5% # of Hi freq words 407 42.8% % of Long Sentences 14.7 Low Freq occurs 216 6.3% # of Low freq words 154 16.2% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Many difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Some Long/Complex Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several unrelated ideas Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Prior Knowledge: Familiarity Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Complex implications Integral Setting - Historical Complex plot Difficult names Foreign words Topics *History War *Citizenship & Laws Prejudice Low Frequency Words achieved admonished annual assembly assumed bristly bureau bursts calyx carnations casually chanpon charged cheesecloth citizens clovelike college comb complicated constantly cousins critically curious curling decades decision defective dignity divider drafty emanated embargo embossed expectantly expressions extremes farm's flawless fluke flustered forlorn fragrance funeral gambling general germany gooey gossip government graceful grading grail growers guilty handsome ichiro ichiro's imagined imposed interrupted invitation invitations involved japanese jiichan kindling kusabana lease lenses lettering lugged makeshift mangled markets marveled mealtime mefrose melrose muramoto muramotos musty nazi neighborhood neutral nighttime nikkei obsessed officially opinion opposed orphanage otherwise outhouse overalls pact parlors peaceful peered percent perfection personally previously protection providing ragged reasons respect resulted rippled rude rumor rumors rustled sauce scent section separated sewn shared significance slender social soviet sponged sponges stable stock studies suited sumiko sumiko's surrounded surrounding suspenders swooshed takao tarps terrace theories union vendors wealthier wealthy weedflowers whereas whites who'd wholesale wilder wildness wives woodpile yugoslavia