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2) Yo-kai watch
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Nathan Adams is just an average kid until the mysterious Whisper gives him a device that allows him to see what others cannot, Yo-kai of all shapes and forms! Now, armed with the Yo-kai Watch, Nathan, Whisper and their new invisible friends embark on an all-new supernatural adventure! Yo-kai, inspired by the yokai of Japanese folklore, are not ghosts or monsters or creatures. They can't be seen by the human eye, but they're everywhere, and whether...
Author
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, hourglassesfomenting 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...
8) Telling time
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"This picture book offers explanations of how to tell time, the difference between digital and analog time and AM and PM"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A summer trip to her grandparents' house was going great until Jesse gets caught up in a mystery in the attic. When she encounters a pair of spooky green eyes during a lightning storm, Jesse sets out to use engineering skills to solve the Case of the Clicking Clock"--
Author
Publisher
Everest
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Español
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.
?Sabra̕s la hora sin mirar el relog? La abuela dice que puede contar los segundos por los latidos de tu corazn̤, qure una hora es lo que tarda el agua de la baęra en enfriarse y que el da̕ se ha terminado cuando mam ̀te da un beso de...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning British watchmaker takes readers on a journey through the history of time-keeping, from the earliest attempts to keep track of the passing of days to the engineering breakthrough that created the first watch.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"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 and engage in fun activities as the clock strikes each of the 12 hour marks ... [Includes] illustrations and back matter that reference the popular Day of the Dead festivities of Mexico and Central America"--Amazon.
Author
Series
Lewis Barnavelt series volume 1
Language
English
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.
17) Firestarter
Author
Series
Timekeeper volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Colton, Daphne, and the others must choose between those striving to take down the world's clock towers so that time can run freely, and terrorists trying to bring back the lost god of time.
18) Angelmaker
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Appears on list
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
Anaya
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
1a. edición.
Language
Español
Description
Maisie uses the watch her grandmother gave her to travel to Renaissance Florence where she meets the young Leonardo da Vinci and his friends and attends a festival at a Medici villa while encouraging Leonardo to be true to his artist's calling.
20) Timekeeper
Author
Series
Timekeeper volume 1
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
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.
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