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4) Telling time
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A brief history of time keeping and clock making.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A child, wondering why Grandma doesn't have the grandfather clock in her house repaired, learns that there are many ways to measure time, from the moment it takes to blink an eye to the years shown in gray hairs.
10) Thirteen o'clock
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a mysterious old clock strikes thirteen, monsters and ghouls appear looking for a snack and a little mischief at the expense of the small girl who lives down the hall.
Author
Series
Rotten School volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bernie Bridges, the egotistical planner and schemer for a group of fourth-graders at The Rotten School, is determined to outsmart his rival in a pie-eating contest.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text expands on the nursery rhyme, "Hickory Dickory Dock," as a cat chases the mouse up the clock, followed by other animals, until midnight arrives and the tired creatures fall asleep. Includes facts about clocks and basic information about telling time.
Author
Series
Lewis Barnavelt series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
A boy goes to live with his magician uncle in a mansion that has a clock hidden in the walls which is ticking off the minutes until doomsday.
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...
17) Tanglewreck
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Silver sets out to find the Timekeeper--a clock that controls time--and to protect it from falling into the hands of two people who want to use the device for their own nefarious ends.
18) Boom Chicka Rock
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Twelve mice that live in a cuckoo clock wander out to find birthday cake and have a party while Max the cat sleeps.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
An adaptation of a traditional Costa Rican song featuring a group of skeletons who jump out of their tombs as the clock strikes each of the twelve hour marks teaches young readers how to tell time.
Learn how to tell time in English and Spanish! ¡Es la hora de los esqueletos! / It's Skeleton Time! teaches how to tell time in English and Spanish. Following an adaptation of a traditional Costa Rican song, a group of skeletons jump out of their tombs...
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