Title - Where the Lilies Bloom Author: Cleaver, Vera and Bill Publisher: HarperTrophy Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre This is a tough and tender novel about an orphaned mountain family and the courageous fourteen-year-old, Mary Call, who keeps them together and alive. Entertain Realistic Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 1793 4.7 870 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 51 Total # of Words 1742 # of Different Words 625 Ave Word/.Sent 11 Hi Freq occurs 1221 70.1% # of Hi freq words 259 41.4% % of Long Sentences 18.4 Low Freq occurs 137 7.9% # of Low freq words 113 18.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Colorful, figurative Sentences: Difficult Text structure: Story/Poem Inferences: Several Implications Complexity: Several ideas - closely related Concepts: Abstract/Complex Social Chapters Features Integral Setting - Historical First Person Topics *Weather *Plants Winter Death Promises *Family & Friends Poverty Responsibility Low Frequency Words ability acres assigned balsam bottomless boughs burial cascade confidence coughing council decently deposited devola devola's differ discarded divvy doctoring eased emptiness exclaims existence fairest fault flowering fritter furious gawk gazed general gimlet hazel honeysuckle humored ignorant ima innocent inquired jaunts junco khaki kin kiser kiser's lacy languishing lilies liquid lonesome luthers maroon marriage maternal medications midmorning obediently overhanging overwearied owes paltry parted paternal pease peered peppered perfume plucking pure referred refreshment requisitioned rhododendron romey romey's salves scarf scent shadbush sharecrop shimmering smoothed snatching speakings spine spruce stingy stripped superstitions supreme surely tallying tangle tariff tempered tepid thaw toothed trial trilled trillium undertaker vegetation veil violets wailing wandered wavering wavy wears wisdom womanly yonder