Classic Starts (R): 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea : Retold from the Jules Verne Original

Enjoyed by readers of age: 9 to 12

Read the most by: boys and girls

Jules Verne’s classic science fiction fantasy carries its hero—Professor Aronnax of the Museum of Paris—on a thrilling and dangerous journey far below the waves to see what creatures live in the ocean’s depths. In the process, Verne imagined a vessel that had not yet been invented: the submarine.