ID |
Text |
Length |
Races |
Difficulty Rating |
240 |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discovers exactly what the U... |
207 |
1 |
1.0369 |
1970003 |
How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the cho... |
103 |
2 |
0.7996 |
1970004 |
He liked the feeling of safety here in this warm and quiet room; he liked the ex... |
173 |
1 |
1.2079 |
1970006 |
For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decisio... |
143 |
1 |
1.0493 |
1970008 |
After Twelve, age isn't important. Most of us even lose track of how old we are ... |
146 |
2 |
0.8590 |
1970014 |
If he had stayed in the community, he would not be. It was as simple as that. On... |
214 |
1 |
1.1723 |
1970016 |
Things could change, Gabe. Things could be different. I don't know how, but ther... |
227 |
1 |
0.8998 |
1970029 |
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of... |
146 |
5 |
1.0348 |
1970034 |
By October, things had settled down again. I still looked for Boo every time I w... |
245 |
3 |
0.9179 |
1970035 |
Let's go down to the courthouse and see the room that they locked Boo up in. My ... |
214 |
1 |
0.9959 |
1970037 |
This was the kid who had spent an entire days at a time begging me to play Chute... |
152 |
1 |
1.1212 |
1970038 |
Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the t... |
112 |
1 |
1.0342 |
1970042 |
Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. |
77 |
1 |
0.9554 |
1970049 |
Imagery is the use of words or phrases that appeal to the five senses. |
70 |
1 |
1.0480 |
1970051 |
Onomatopeia is the use of words whose sound suggest their meaning. |
66 |
1 |
0.9093 |
1970052 |
Personification is giving human qualities to non-human things. |
62 |
1 |
0.9995 |
1970056 |
Resolution is the solution to the problem. |
42 |
4 |
0.8475 |
1970059 |
A stanza is a group of lines in poetry set apart from another group of lines. |
77 |
1 |
1.2317 |
1970060 |
A suffix is an added ending to a word that changes its meaning. For example, tha... |
100 |
3 |
1.1329 |
1970063 |
Context clues are information from the text combined with the knowledge of the r... |
191 |
4 |
1.0069 |
1970064 |
Conventions in writing include spelling, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, a... |
96 |
1 |
0.6850 |
1970065 |
A dialect is the form of language that is spoken in a certain place or by a cert... |
100 |
2 |
1.3030 |
1970066 |
To edit is to check the grammar, spelling, and punctuation of a piece of writing. |
81 |
2 |
0.8415 |
1970067 |
A folk tale is a story that has been passed from generation to generation by wor... |
91 |
4 |
1.0198 |
1970069 |
A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things that uses like or as. |
69 |
1 |
1.2001 |
1970070 |
MLA format specifies guidelines for formatting manuscripts and using the English... |
101 |
4 |
0.9781 |
1970072 |
A myth is a traditional story that attempts to explain such things as the origin... |
134 |
1 |
1.4098 |
1970074 |
Persuasion is the concept of convincing others to agree with an opinion, to shar... |
127 |
1 |
0.9575 |
1970077 |
To revise is to make changes in writing after proofreading and editing. |
71 |
5 |
1.0096 |
1970078 |
A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhymes in a poem. |
48 |
4 |
0.9594 |
1970081 |
Voice is the style of the author; the quality that makes his or her writing uniq... |
157 |
1 |
0.8324 |
1970082 |
An analogy is making comparisons between words and/or ideas with common traits. |
79 |
1 |
0.9031 |
1970088 |
An expository piece of writing is a non-fiction piece of text used to inform or ... |
89 |
1 |
0.9552 |
1970089 |
A flashback is a literary technique that interrupts the present action in a stor... |
126 |
4 |
0.9404 |
1970092 |
Irony is the opposite of an intended outcome. |
45 |
2 |
1.0506 |
1970093 |
Meter is the recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a p... |
84 |
1 |
0.8256 |
1970095 |
Plagiarism is copying/stealing direct information from a source and taking credi... |
89 |
1 |
0.9591 |
1970096 |
Prejudice is a preconceived judgment or opinion about people or groups of people. |
81 |
1 |
0.7924 |
1970098 |
To scapegoat is to place blame on others for problems that arise. |
65 |
1 |
1.2040 |
1970101 |
Symbolism is a person, place, object or action that stands for something other t... |
91 |
1 |
0.9566 |
1970298 |
Jem said he would escort me to the school auditorium. Thus began our longest jou... |
94 |
3 |
0.8743 |
1970307 |
Whenever the Committee of Elders are faced with a new situation, they are able t... |
126 |
2 |
0.9109 |
1970312 |
As the inhabitants of Redwall Abbey bask in the glorious Summer of the Late Rose... |
141 |
2 |
1.0179 |
1970314 |
The young mouse Matthias (formerly Redwall's most awkward novice) vows to recove... |
103 |
1 |
0.9154 |
1970315 |
Helped by different friends along the way, Matthias finally discovers the sword'... |
183 |
2 |
0.9929 |
1970319 |
A million colored dust-motes danced and swirled as the two mice trod the ancient... |
93 |
2 |
1.0461 |
1970322 |
So it was writen, and so it has been through all the ages of mousekind since. |
77 |
3 |
0.9740 |
1970324 |
Happiness filled Matthias from tail to whiskers as he bobbed a quick bow to his ... |
106 |
3 |
0.9435 |
1970325 |
Get your rod and line. Tell Brother Alf that he is to take you fishing in the sm... |
134 |
1 |
0.8996 |
1970328 |
Determined to save her friend, Charlotte spins a web that reads "Some Pig," conv... |
178 |
3 |
0.8930 |
1970333 |
Fern couldn't take her eyes off the tiny pig. "Oh," she whispered, "Oh, look at ... |
110 |
2 |
0.7188 |
1970335 |
He wins the trip of a lifetime - a magical tour around Mr. Wonka's mysterious ch... |
96 |
2 |
0.9119 |
1970336 |
He worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long at a bench and scre... |
173 |
3 |
1.1767 |
1970339 |
But I haven't yet told you about the one awful thing that tortured little Charli... |
131 |
2 |
0.9066 |
1970340 |
In the town itself, actually within sight of the house in which Charlie lived, t... |
119 |
1 |
0.9500 |
1970342 |
To her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francis... |
97 |
1 |
0.9078 |
1970344 |
Miyax becomes lost in the vast Alaskan tundra, with no food, no shelter, and no ... |
112 |
2 |
1.2551 |
1970345 |
Now, more than ever, she must look hard at who she really is. Is she Miyax, Eski... |
104 |
2 |
0.8319 |
1970348 |
If she trusts her Eskimo instincts, will she stand a chance of surviving? |
73 |
3 |
0.9209 |
1970349 |
Accepted by their leader and befriended by a feisty pup named Kapu, she soon gro... |
111 |
2 |
0.9021 |
1970351 |
Her heart beat furiously as she grunt-whined the sound of the puppy begging ador... |
100 |
2 |
1.0447 |
1970354 |
Her hands trembled and her heart quickened, for she was frightened, not so much ... |
194 |
1 |
1.0891 |
1970355 |
Miyax was a classic Eskimo beauty, small of bone and delicately wired with stron... |
90 |
1 |
0.9181 |
1970356 |
Not a tree grew anywhere to break the monotony of the gold-green plain, for the ... |
123 |
1 |
1.0325 |
1970358 |
First of all, let me get something straight: this is a JOURNAL, not a diary. |
76 |
1 |
0.8438 |
1970359 |
All I need is for some jerk to catch me carrying this book around and get the wr... |
89 |
4 |
1.1153 |
1970362 |
Like I said, I'll be famous one day, but right now I'm stuck in middle school wi... |
101 |
3 |
0.8675 |
1970363 |
Let me just say for the record that I think middle school is about the dumbest i... |
98 |
2 |
0.9834 |
1970395 |
A person's a person, no matter how small. |
41 |
2 |
1.0370 |
1970396 |
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred ... |
88 |
3 |
0.9017 |
1970397 |
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good. |
66 |
4 |
1.0253 |
1970407 |
There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go! |
80 |
3 |
0.7821 |
1970414 |
Just tell yourself, Duckie, your really quite lucky. |
52 |
1 |
1.0027 |
1970418 |
I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that... |
90 |
4 |
1.2705 |
1970420 |
One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish! |
37 |
2 |
0.8965 |
1970421 |
I do not like green eggs and ham I do not like them sam I am. |
61 |
1 |
1.3296 |
1970424 |
Not here not there not anywhere! |
32 |
2 |
1.1371 |
1970425 |
And what would you do if you met a jibboo? |
42 |
2 |
0.9964 |
1970427 |
Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today. |
63 |
1 |
0.8313 |
1970428 |
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. |
44 |
1 |
1.2555 |
1970440 |
And Sally and I did not know what to say. |
41 |
2 |
1.0533 |
1970500 |
Rhythm and syzygy are the longest English words without vowels. |
63 |
1 |
0.6276 |
1970502 |
The words racecar and kayak are palindromes; they are the same whether they are ... |
116 |
1 |
1.1890 |
1970526 |
A group of crows is called a murder. |
36 |
2 |
1.0092 |
1970566 |
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wante... |
123 |
1 |
0.8401 |
1970569 |
Miraculously Brian is able to swim free of the plane, arriving on a sandy tree-l... |
193 |
4 |
0.9386 |
1970573 |
His voice was starting to rattle and he felt as if he might start screaming at a... |
90 |
5 |
1.0979 |
1970576 |
His eyes fell upon the stone ridge to his left and he thought at first he should... |
117 |
1 |
1.0149 |
1970578 |
The berries were full and ripe, and he tasted one to find it sweet, and with non... |
118 |
3 |
1.1234 |
1970579 |
Although they did not grow in clusters, there were many of them and they were ea... |
127 |
3 |
1.1579 |
1970581 |
The nick wasn't large, but the hatchet was important to him, was his only tool, ... |
113 |
2 |
1.0653 |
1970586 |
But it was s long time, a long time of eating fish and looking for berries, and ... |
140 |
1 |
0.9989 |
1970587 |
He thought if he worked at it and practiced he might hit one of the larger rabbi... |
178 |
4 |
1.0722 |
1970588 |
When the light comes I'll start to rebuild. I still have the hatchet and that's ... |
109 |
4 |
1.0549 |
1970590 |
She would have the small television on the kitchen counter on and be watching th... |
184 |
1 |
1.1272 |
1970591 |
When the pilot rescued Brian he had been alone on the L-shaped lake for fifty-fo... |
155 |
1 |
0.9272 |
1970600 |
I stared without breathing across the long room, into the dark eyes of the hunte... |
119 |
2 |
1.0620 |
1970601 |
When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not re... |
123 |
3 |
0.9208 |
1970604 |
The only thing that was out of place was the troll's leg umbrella stand, which w... |
144 |
2 |
1.0856 |
1970606 |
After the usual brief spell of darkness and near suffocation, Harry found himsel... |
167 |
1 |
0.8320 |
1970611 |
The flapping of enormous wings echoed across the black water: The dragon had dru... |
115 |
4 |
1.0363 |
1970613 |
Then Hermione walked forward and took her place between the other two. Harry pul... |
186 |
6 |
1.0639 |
1970616 |
And wouldn't those secluded Albanian woods have seemed an excellent refuge when,... |
169 |
1 |
0.9115 |
1970618 |
The stairs beneath their feet flattened into a chute and she, Harry, and Ron hur... |
201 |
2 |
0.9904 |
1970620 |
His tone was light, but his blue eyes pierced Snape as they had frequently pierc... |
143 |
5 |
0.8726 |
1970676 |
I was just sitting in the kitchen doing my homework and she just walked in and j... |
110 |
1 |
1.4639 |
1970678 |
You know, I don't even know if you could call it a pizza. It was more like the e... |
132 |
5 |
0.9508 |
1970687 |
Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things like wearing these pan... |
175 |
4 |
1.1738 |
1970690 |
I know that you're tired, okay, but you can't give up, the Pants will give you a... |
110 |
1 |
0.8869 |
1970691 |
The Pants have already worked their magic on me. They brought me to you. |
72 |
2 |
1.1160 |
1970696 |
Some people show off their beauty because they want the world to see it. Others ... |
155 |
3 |
1.0204 |
1970699 |
It makes me so sad that people like Kostas and Bridget who have lost everything ... |
148 |
3 |
0.9717 |
1970700 |
There's a part of me that wants to let him in but then I feel myself put this wa... |
256 |
1 |
1.0865 |
1970701 |
There's a part of me that wants to let him in but then I feel myself put this wa... |
113 |
1 |
1.0558 |
1970702 |
Maybe that's what strikes me most about Kostas: that despite everything he's suf... |
142 |
1 |
0.9949 |
1970703 |
We have gathered here today to celebrate a magical gift that has been given to us. |
82 |
6 |
1.1571 |
1970705 |
You know what I like most about the stars? You look at them, at all of them up t... |
140 |
3 |
0.9991 |
1970708 |
You think a pair of pants that fits all three of you is going to fit...all of th... |
84 |
1 |
1.1856 |
1970710 |
It's the fact that you've found yourself this new family and I feel like some ou... |
127 |
1 |
1.0640 |
1970711 |
They had just witnessed one of those regular but painful life transitions. That,... |
119 |
3 |
1.0598 |
1970713 |
We had all the way until next summer, when we would take out the Traveling Pants... |
117 |
2 |
1.0161 |
1970741 |
Just close your eyes and keep your mind wide open. |
50 |
1 |
0.9118 |
1970745 |
She brought you something special when she came here, didn't she? |
65 |
3 |
1.1327 |
1970753 |
People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget... |
71 |
1 |
1.0029 |
1970754 |
So I guess you're the fastest kid in school now, huh? |
53 |
1 |
0.8209 |
1970819 |
I usually practice at least an hour a day on my practice pad and another half ho... |
98 |
2 |
1.0716 |
1970820 |
Jeffrey had the two worst black eyes I'd ever seen, and his nose was swollen to ... |
108 |
1 |
0.8647 |
1970821 |
Actually, he looked like some deranged anteater, but I didn't figure that would ... |
105 |
1 |
0.7685 |
1970822 |
The reason why his nosebleed had been so bad is that the leukemia had drasticall... |
169 |
4 |
0.8912 |
1970823 |
When he first arrived in Philly, the doctors had run a huge battery of tests to ... |
205 |
6 |
0.9202 |
1970825 |
The doctor in charge was barking orders like a Marine drill sargeant, with quest... |
107 |
4 |
0.9134 |
1970828 |
Some seemed healthier than Jeffrey, and others were in such bad shape that they ... |
119 |
5 |
0.9767 |
1970829 |
He deserves to have his father see what an amazing musician he is. He's also an ... |
120 |
5 |
0.9705 |
1971002 |
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wante... |
181 |
1 |
0.8787 |
1971006 |
The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. Bu... |
115 |
2 |
1.0542 |
1971011 |
For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people... |
89 |
2 |
1.0833 |
1971013 |
If he had stayed in the community, he would not be. It was as simple as that. On... |
109 |
2 |
0.9192 |
1971015 |
Things could change, Gabe. Things could be different. I don't know how, but ther... |
126 |
2 |
1.0063 |
1971020 |
A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, ... |
97 |
1 |
0.8087 |
1971021 |
...some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string |
73 |
2 |
0.9515 |
1971023 |
And he lets out a roar if you open the door. And it gives me a scare to know he'... |
131 |
2 |
0.8341 |
1971024 |
Whosoever's room this is should be ashamed! His underwear is hanging on the lamp... |
176 |
2 |
0.8740 |
1971026 |
His books are all jammed in the closet, His vest has been left in the hall. A li... |
167 |
2 |
0.8668 |
1971027 |
Whosoever's room this is should be ashamed! Donald or Robert or Willie or-- Huh?... |
136 |
3 |
0.7754 |
1971030 |
Don't you set down on the steps. 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fa... |
181 |
2 |
0.8025 |
1971031 |
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid ... |
255 |
1 |
1.0451 |
1971032 |
And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul... |
162 |
2 |
1.0362 |
1971033 |
Esperanza was six years old and loved to walk with her papa through the winding ... |
103 |
4 |
1.0632 |
1971037 |
...since Esperanza was an only child and Papa's pride and glory, she was always ... |
96 |
3 |
1.0155 |
1971039 |
Esperanza, on the other hand, wore a light silk dress that stopped above her sum... |
107 |
2 |
1.0716 |
1971041 |
When she reached the vines, she separated the leaves and carefully grasped a thi... |
88 |
1 |
0.8564 |
1971044 |
Esperanza stood between Mama and Papa, with her arms linked to theirs, and admir... |
111 |
2 |
1.0580 |
1971047 |
When the women put the hot bricks between their feet to keep them warm, so did s... |
83 |
2 |
1.0490 |
1971048 |
When the sack was full of grapes, the field workers took it away. |
65 |
3 |
1.1736 |
1971052 |
It was their own language of happy exclamations and overwhelming emotions. Esper... |
102 |
2 |
0.9035 |
1971113 |
The campers are forbidden to lie in the hammock. It belongs to the Warden. The W... |
101 |
2 |
1.1823 |
1971115 |
Out on the lake, rattlesnakes and scorpions find shade under rocks and in the ho... |
103 |
2 |
0.8809 |
1971116 |
Here's a good rule to remember about rattlesnakes and scropions: If you don't bo... |
122 |
4 |
0.8022 |
1971125 |
If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will ... |
140 |
2 |
1.0913 |
1971126 |
If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will ... |
105 |
3 |
1.0970 |
1971128 |
Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. |
35 |
1 |
0.6304 |
1971136 |
If it weren't for that, Stanley's family would be living in a mansion on a beach... |
188 |
2 |
0.9392 |
1971139 |
The apartment smelled the way it did because Stanley's father was trying to inve... |
113 |
3 |
1.0371 |
1971143 |
Because of the scarcity of water, each camper was only allowed a four-minute sho... |
84 |
3 |
1.1630 |
1971144 |
Stanley had never been one to leave food on his plate, matter how it tasted. |
76 |
2 |
1.2271 |
1971147 |
He had just walked out from under a freeway overpass when the shoe hit him on th... |
87 |
2 |
1.1002 |
1971148 |
Stanley's blisters had ripped open, and new blisters formed. He kept changing hi... |
126 |
3 |
1.0185 |
1971152 |
Stanley did as he was told. He carefully looked through all the dirt dug up by Z... |
164 |
4 |
0.9149 |
1971154 |
The boys dug until each hole was well over six feet deep and wide. Still, it was... |
172 |
2 |
0.9342 |
1971157 |
By lunchtime the Warden was beginning to lose her patience. She made them eat qu... |
118 |
2 |
1.0010 |
1971173 |
When we neared the house, the dull glow of a kerosene lamp was shining faintly f... |
99 |
1 |
1.1920 |
1971175 |
She grew quiet and rubbed the wrinkles down one hand as if to smooth them away. |
79 |
1 |
1.1853 |
1971194 |
I cried for those things which had happened that night which meant things would ... |
98 |
1 |
1.0901 |
1971197 |
Of course he had gotten up early to run. He had gotten up early everyday all sum... |
91 |
1 |
1.1516 |
1971203 |
When he was in first grade, he told his dad that he wanted to be an artist when ... |
91 |
1 |
0.9594 |
1971208 |
She ran as if it was her nature. It reminded him of a flight of wild ducks in th... |
193 |
2 |
0.9002 |
1971209 |
She ran as if it was her nature. |
32 |
1 |
1.4307 |
1971212 |
Why did two grown people want to leave a comfortable life in the suburbs for a p... |
95 |
2 |
1.0849 |
1971222 |
He was drifting, drifting like a fat white lazy cloud back and forth across the ... |
85 |
1 |
1.0656 |
1971223 |
Leslie named their secret land "Terabithia," and she loaned Jess all of her book... |
226 |
2 |
0.9377 |
1971224 |
Leslie named their secret land "Terabithia." |
44 |
2 |
0.7685 |
1971226 |
Jess would know how things went in a magic kingdom - how the animals and the tre... |
129 |
1 |
1.0059 |
1971227 |
For the first time in his life he got up every morning with something to look fo... |
89 |
2 |
1.0873 |
1971228 |
Leslie's favorite place besides the castle stronghold was the pine forest. There... |
145 |
2 |
1.2420 |
1971232 |
There was no mistaking the delight in Leslie's eyes. |
52 |
1 |
1.2858 |
1971235 |
Something whirled around inside Jess's head. |
44 |
1 |
0.7364 |
1971398 |
They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his li... |
83 |
6 |
1.0584 |
1971402 |
He explained to me with great insistence that every question possessed a power t... |
110 |
2 |
1.2381 |
1971404 |
I would often sit with Moshe in the evening after the service, listening to his ... |
134 |
3 |
0.8845 |
1971405 |
Moshe wandered in the synagogue or in the streets, with his eyes down, his back ... |
109 |
3 |
0.9338 |
1971406 |
Before three days had passed, German army cars had appeared in our streets. |
75 |
1 |
1.0985 |
1971411 |
We gave up some of our rooms to relatives who had been driven out of their flats. |
81 |
2 |
1.0516 |
1971412 |
Little by little life returned to normal. The barbed wire which fenced us in did... |
108 |
5 |
0.9791 |
1971413 |
Little by little life returned to normal. |
41 |
1 |
1.4169 |
1971418 |
The bundle on her back was too heavy for her. She gritted her teeth. She knew by... |
122 |
2 |
1.0074 |
1971422 |
She gritted her teeth. |
22 |
2 |
0.9458 |
1971423 |
Night. No one prayed, so that the night would pass quickly. |
59 |
1 |
1.0707 |
1971428 |
It was as though she were possessed by an evil spirit which spoke from the depth... |
95 |
3 |
0.8686 |
1971432 |
Two men were allowed to get down to fetch water. |
48 |
2 |
0.9480 |
1971433 |
And as the train stopped, we saw this time that flames were gushing out of a tal... |
109 |
1 |
1.0701 |
1971434 |
The cherished objects we had brought with us thus far were left behind in the tr... |
122 |
2 |
0.8937 |
1971439 |
The word bulldozer wandered through his mind for a moment in search of something... |
97 |
2 |
1.0772 |
1971441 |
Fifteen seconds later he was out of the house and lying in front of a big yellow... |
129 |
4 |
0.9920 |
1971442 |
A cloud passed overhead. It cast a shadow over Arthur Dent as he lay propped up ... |
109 |
1 |
0.9005 |
1971444 |
Everyone would laugh and ask him what sort of flying saucer he was looking for. |
79 |
1 |
1.1353 |
1971445 |
Ford Prefect was desperate for any flying saucer at all to arrive because fiftee... |
129 |
1 |
1.1324 |
1971446 |
Human beings are great adapters, and by lunchtime life in Arthur's house had set... |
107 |
4 |
0.9746 |
1971447 |
A sudden silence hit the Earth. If anything it was worse than the noise. For a w... |
102 |
2 |
0.9497 |
1971454 |
One of the side effects of work on the Heart of Gold was a whole string of prett... |
107 |
3 |
1.0257 |
1971460 |
The pink cublicle had winked out of existence, the monkeys had sunk away to a be... |
95 |
1 |
1.0127 |