Jules Verne

"Axel and his uncle find a note that describes a path to Earth's center! The men climb deep inside a volcano and discover amazing wonders. They also run into danger, which could trap them below the surface forever. These reader-favorite tiles are now updated for enhanced Common Core State Standards support, including discussion and writing prompts developed by a Common Core expert, an expanded introduction, bolded glossary words and dynamic new...

"When this book was originally published posthumously in 1906, Verne's son, Michel, rewrote many of his father's passages. Proof that the Frenchman's fiction (e.g., "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Around the World in Eighty Days") never disappoints, this version is the first authentic English translation of Verne's original manuscript and restores the story as he originally wrote it. Set at the height of the Klondike gold rush, the story recounts the...

A professor of marine studies, his self-effacing young assistant, and a Canadian harpooner join an expedition to investigate a monster that has been terrorizing the world. When the ship finally runs into the “monster”, these three very different men are thrown overboard, only to be rescued and then taken prisoner by the very monster they've been chasing. The “monster” turns out to be a submarine called the Nautilus, and its captain and creator...

Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest. Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things we know are lurking just out of sight--on the other side of the looking-glass, beyond the music of the impossibly haunting violin, through the twisted trees of the...