Title - Young Indiana Jones and the Gypsy Revenge Author: Martin, Les Publisher: Random House Print Synopsis Authors Purpose Genre In France in 1914, young Indiana Jones and his father's assistant Thornton pursue a rare manuscript that may reveal secrets of history involving a medieval king, mysterious gypsies, and a legendary treasure Entertain Historical Fiction RDQ (Reading Difficulty Quotient) Accelerated Reader Lexile Find at 2046 5.0 910 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 38 Total # of Words 3044 # of Different Words 987 Ave Word/.Sent 9 Hi Freq occurs 2086 68.5% # of Hi freq words 401 40.6% % of Long Sentences 4.3 Low Freq occurs 260 8.5% # of Low freq words 189 19.1% Subjective Criteria Illustrations: No support Dialog: Multiple speakers Dialog: Broken dialogue Dialog: Unlabeled Speaker Vocabulary: Some difficult words Language: Many descriptive words Sentences: Multiple phrases Text structure: Story/Poem Chapters Mature Concepts: With some uncommon experiences Features Character traits Complex character relationships Integral Setting - Historical Complex plot Foreign words Topics Mystery Stealing Danger Crime Low Frequency Words accented addition adventurous advice announced annoyed antique approaching arles assure basin billowing breastplate cafe cafe's carriage cellar centimes clinking concerned convincing corpse crouching crusade crusaders crusades cure curiously currently deepened delicious destination dingy disapprovingly distinguished document doubt drawn dupont dupont's earrings earshot education emptied entrusted extension faraway fellow fisted flattered flawless forbidding foreigners fortune franc francs frantic further future gathering glance glumly gradually grant grimaced guidebook gypsies gypsy harbor havre heavily honest honored horizon humdrum hypnotized identified ignoring impatient impatiently informed instructor irritating junior keenly kilometers kindly knight knight's knights launch lecture legacy lovesick manuscript marshland measles medieval meekly mer mere merely mission moisture monsieur mortes moslems mysterious nearing needless nickname ninth noted notion notions official olive opinion paris phony plainly population pouch precious preferred prejudice preserved private prized production prove provided purchasing ransom reading's relics reluctantly remarked reveal rickety ridiculous rimless romantic rough saintes scrambled seedy sickening sipping smugness softened southern splendid squabbles starched statue stiffly stirred streaked studied summed summoned superior survive sweat swindled tarot textured thieves thornton thornton's thorntons thumping timeworn tobacco trickled tweeds understanding valuable vivid vowed voyage walled weird widened winemaking worth wrinkled younger