READING LEVEL: 4.0 TO 5.0
INTEREST LEVEL: YA

GUIDED READING LEVEL: Q TO X

 

Searching for a sea monster, a scientist discovers an amazing underwater vessel. At first he's thrilled to be invited aboard the Nautilus. What changes his mind? He discovered that the mad captain plans to stay at sea forever.

 

Saddleback Classics were expressly designed to welcome developing readers to the wondrous world of great literature. Each novel, complete in just 80 pages, has been painstakingly adapted to retain the itegrity of the original work. Each provides the reader a sense of the author's style and an understanding of the novel's theme.

 

Features:

Interior illustrations help students visualize characters and events

Airy page design with fewer than 200 words per page

Artful replacement of archaic words and spellings

Sentences and paragraphs shortened for easier reading