clocks and watches

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clocks and watches

The boy who stopped time

1993
Julian stops the pendulum from swinging on the clock and has a marvelous adventure while the rest of the world is suspended in time.

Justo a tiempo, ?mbar Dorado

2007
?mbar Dorado gets upset with her friend Justo because he is never on time; but ?mbar learns that friends can have differences and still get along.

La hora

1994
Introduces the concept of time through pictured clocks and photographs of breakfast time, time to go shopping, bathtime, bedtime, and other times.

Angelmaker

2012
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.

It's about time, Max!

2009
When Max misplaces his digital watch, he replaces it with an analog watch that he does not know how to read and finds himself late for everything.

Clocks

building and experimenting with model timepieces
1988
Instructions for using readily available materials to make working models of different kinds of clocks with suggested experiments to discover how they work.

Learn to tell the time with the Munch Bunch

1981
Provides for practice in telling time as the Munch Bunch prepares for a picnic at the beach.

The stopwatch

1986
Tom times everything with his new stopwatch, including the time it takes to retrieve the watch after his sister steals it.

Tanglewreck

2007
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.

A day in our lives

time
2011
Investigates the mathematics of time through a look at an ordinary day in the lives of cousins Tia, who lives in Mexico City, and Rod, who lives near Chicago. Looks at digital and analog clocks.

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