Aliens.

Aliens is the humorous, realistic story of a brother and sister playing good-natured tricks on each other.  Jack tries to scare Milly by banging on her door and shouting “Aliens, aliens!”  When the pair sleep outside in tents, Milly turns the tables on Jack. The story is told in dialogue and narrative that is close to the language patterns of oral language.

All the sentences are short and similar in structure.  Realistic illustrations match the text directly.  The characters’ names are capitalized.  Quotation marks are used in dialogue.  Bold face and exclamation marks are used for emphasis.  The final page of the book is a news report.

The high frequency word is didn’t. Interest words include aliens, banged, scare, and flippers.  The positional words are under, over, in, on, up, down, out, and into.  The compound words are into and footprints.

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