clocks and watches

Unlike her best friend Justin, Amber Brown loves to measure time and hopes to receive a watch on her seventh birthday.

Explores clocks invented throughout history, and highlights mishaps related to them. Includes a glossary, resources for further information, and color photographs.

When Reuben discovers an extraordinary antique watch, he soon learns it has a secret power and his life takes an intriguing turn. At first he is thrilled with his new treasure, but as one secret leads to another, Reuben finds himself torn between his innately honest nature and the lure to be a hero.

Kid detective Jigsaw Jones calls upon all his friends for help when he loses his grandfather's watch and must find it before his dad discovers it is missing.

Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe the history of clocks and calendars and how important they have become.

With full-color photographs, activities, and a pronunciation guide, this book introduces clocks and stop watches and explains how they can be used to study things, such as a person's heart rate and how fast animals learn.

Simple text and color photographs depict how people told time throughout history, how clocks were developed, and the difference between analog and digital clocks. Offers practice exercises for telling time.

Time is divided up into small portions: years, weeks, months, hours, minutes, and seconds. This title will allow students to cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.