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Author
Series
A is for Amber volume 2
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Unlike her best friend, Justin, Amber Brown loves to measure time and hopes to receive a watch on her seventh birthday.
23) Telling time
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This picture book offers explanations of how to tell time, the difference between digital and analog time and AM and PM"--
24) A home for Bird
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Vernon the toad takes the silent Bird on a journey in hopes of finding Bird's home.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Our modern lives are ruled by clocks and watches, smartphone apps and calendar programs. While our gadgets may be new, however, the drive to measure and master time is anything but--and in A Brief History of Timekeeping, Chad Orzel traces the path from Stonehenge to your smartphone. Predating written language and marching on through human history, the desire for ever-better timekeeping has spurred technological innovation and sparked theories that...
27) 15 minutes
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Casey Little is always late until he discovers a magic watch that takes him back in time, a trick he uses both on and off the football field.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Catherine Daly's ability to awaken the dead for a final goodbye goes awry when she and Guy Nolan, the watchmaker's son, seek a watch but find, instead, a boy whose return from the dead draws danger to the three.
By day Catherine Daly works for a printer. By night she awakens the dead for a few precious moments with loved ones seeking a final goodbye. This magic comes with a price: for every hour that a ghost is brought back, Catherine loses an hour...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
How do humans perceive time? What are the three different kinds of days? What is a shadow clock and how does it work? Using easy-to-find materials, you can conduct these fun and simple experiments to learn about the science behind time and how it has been measured throughout history.--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites...
33) Death watch
Author
Series
Undertaken trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Silas Umber's father disappears, Silas is sure it is connected to the powerful artifact he discovers, combined with his father's hidden hometown history, which compels Silas to pursue the path leading to his destiny and ultimately, to the discovery of his father, dead or alive.
34) Timekeeper
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In an alternate 1875 England, seventeen-year-old clock mechanic Danny, aided by the boy he loves, must discover who is sabotaging the towers that control the flow of time and stop him or her before it is too late.
Author
Series
Locker 37 volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Hidden away at Hopewell Elementary School is a magical locker that always delivers a solution to your problems--just not quite in the way you might expect.
When Keisha James forgets to do her science homework, Locker 37 gifts her with a clock that can rewind time--how will she use her second (or third...or fourth) chances?
36) Chainbreaker
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In an alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, where a damaged clock can fracture time---and a destroyed one can stop it completely, eighteen-year-old mechanic Danny investigates fallen clock towers in British-occupied India and unravels more secrets about his and Colton's past.
In an alternate 1875 England controlled by clock towers, a damaged clock can fracture time-- and a destroyed one can stop it completely. Clock mechanic Danny...
39) Angelmaker
Author
Language
English
Description
Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her dying aunt gives her a magical pocket watch, twelve-year-old Rosemary, as she begins to dream, enters a fantastical place where each hour of the watch takes her to a different world--until the class bully steals the watch, and Rosemary must gather the magic from all twelve worlds to rescue a boy she does not even like.
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