Jules Verne
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid Detective Fix, a bounty hunter certain he is on the trail of a notorious bank robber. Combining exploration,...
Author
Series
Step-up adventures volume 6
Pub. Date
[1983]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
440L
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.