"In an alternate past--or possible future--a mighty tree stands on the banks of a winding river, bearing silent witness to the flow of time and change. A family farms the fertile valley. Soon, a village sprouts, and not long after, a town. Residents learn to harness the water, the wind, and the animals in order to survive and thrive. The growing population becomes ever more industrious and clever, bending nature itself to their will and their ambition: redirecting rivers, harvesting lumber, reshaping the land, even extending daylight itself . . ."--Provided by publisher.
After trying and failing to break her years-long curse of bad first days of school, eighth grader Vivian Lantz wishes for a do-over and gets stuck repeatedly reliving this year's horrible first day.
Locked away in a secret prison in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, fourteen-year-olds Antares and Magdavell?a set out to discover a lost and forgotten island that holds the key to foiling the evil mystics' plan to control time.
"Magic is great at math. Yet, when it comes to telling time, he cannot get the hang of it. In Mr. Gray's class, Magic and his friends Rex and Reva travel to an aquarium on a most unusual clock. Once there, can they keep the schedule by learning the hours, minutes, and seconds?"--Provided by publisher.
"In 'Tuan Takes a Trip,' beginning readers follow along as Tuan and his family take a trip and count down the time it takes to get to Grandpa's house. Readers will learn to read time on both analog and digital clocks"--Provided by publisher.
Introduces the various ways to determine time including calendars, clocks, stopwatch, and timer. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.
"The joy of the changing seasons means saying hello to new but familiar rituals, like spring picnics in the park or homemade lemonade in summer. But there's also the bittersweet feeling of doing something for the last time, like mowing the lawn one final time on a brown day in autumn or watching the last of the geese fly south"--Provided by publisher.
Following his punishment for trying to measure God's greatest gift, Father Time is granted his freedom and is sent on a mission to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time.
"For some reason, Clark has woken up and relived the same monotonous Monday 309 times. Until Day 310 turns out to be. . .different. Suddenly, his usual torturous math class is interrupted by an anomaly--a boy he's never seen before in all his previous Mondays. When shy, reserved Clark decides to throw caution to the wind and join effusive and effervescent Beau on a series of 'errands' across the Windy City, he never imagines that anything will really change, because nothing has in such a long time. And he definitely doesn't expect to fall this hard or this fast for someone in just one day. There's just one problem: how do you build a future with someone if you can never get to tomorrow?"--Amazon.
