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Author
Series
Lewis Barnavelt series volume 1
Language
English
Description
John Bellairs, the name in Gothic mysteries for middle graders, wrote terrifying tales full of adventure, attitude and alarm. For years, young readers have crept, crawled, and gone bump in the night with the unlikely heroes of these Gothic novels: Lewis Barnavelt, Johnny Dixon, and Anthony Monday. Now, the ten top-selling titles feature an updated cover look. Loyal fans and enticed newcomers will love the series even more with this haunting new look!...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis, who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town's sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches. Based on the beloved children's classic book.
4) Angelmaker
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
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.
5) Poisoned
Author
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of the fairy tale Snow White, the huntsman follows the queen's order to kill Sophie, but the princess is brought back to life by the seven men of the woods, who, along with other brave friends, help Sophie overcome the story's true villain and reclaim her throne.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When twelve-year-old Reuben finds a peculiar, magical watch that has the power to turn its wearer invisible, he's propelled on the adventure of a lifetime"--
When Reuben discovers an antique watch that was mortared into the wall, he soon learns it has a secret power. As one secret leads to another, Reuben finds himself torn between his innately honest nature and the lure to be a hero. Now he is on a dangerous adventure, and with fearless Penny,...
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 28
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
118 pages, 14 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Michael ignores his father's warning not to touch an antique cuckoo clock.
Author
Series
Glass and Steele novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether, India takes employment with the only person who'll accept her, an enigmatic and mysterious man from America. A man who possesses a strange watch that rejuvenates him when he's ill. Matthew...
Author
Series
Locker 37 volume 2
Language
English
Formats
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?
12) Measuring time
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Will it be now or will it be later? Use a measuring tool to measure the time. From seconds to years, learn about time and become a measuring master"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent-- not the body of a middle-aged man sprawled across the living room floor. But when old Miss Pebmarsh denies sending for her in the first place, or of owning all the clocks that surround the body, it's clear that they are going to need a very good dectective. "This crime is so complicated that it must be quite simple," declares Hercule Poirot. But there's...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
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...
15) Timekeeper
Author
Series
Timekeeper volume 1
Language
English
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.
16) Tick-tock sharks
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Observes different species of sharks from the time they arise in the morning and get ready for school until they go to bed at night, as the moveable hands on a fold-out clock help teach the reader how to tell time.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 30
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
170 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
While attending the Festival of Time in Germany, the Thea sisters investigate the theft of a famous clock.
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