With all the teen dystopian novels we've been reading lately, our literary diet has begun to feel a bit unbalanced with mind candy. For our next "read together" novel I wanted something that offered more vocabulary meat, but with a story light and airy enough for spring reading (we tend to be restless in the spring). That generally means Jules Verne to me, but I was thinking we'd read pretty much everything of his - until I realized it's been nearly ten years since we read "Around the Wor...
