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This guide teaches students how to use clocks and stop watches. Explanations are provided of how these tools can be used to study things, such as a persons heart rate and how fast animals learn. Discussion about how to construct an experiment make it easy for readers to do one themselves and one is provided for them to try.
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"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...
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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...
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Yo-kai watch volume 5
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VIZ Media, LLC
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2016.
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English
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Nate Adams is just an average kid until the mysterious Whisper gives him the Yo-kai Watch, which allows him to see Yo-kai of all shapes and forms.
6) Tick-tock
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Candlewick Press
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1994.
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English
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When Skip Squirrel breaks her mother's beloved cuckoo clock, her attempts to get it fixed have surprising results.
8) Time to
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Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
1989.
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English
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An hour-by-hour introduction to telling time follows the activities of a little boy's day from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night.
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Yo-kai watch volume 7
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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Nate Adams is just an average kid until the mysterious Whisper gives him the Yo-kai Watch. Now he can see what others cannot: Yo-kai of all shapes and form"--Page 4 of cover.
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"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...
12) Siegfried
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Bantam Books
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[1991]
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English
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When Mr. and Mrs. Fritz get a large and noisy cuckoo clock, their cat Siegfried decides to wage war against it.
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Our modern lives are ruled by clocks and watches, smartphone apps and calendar programs. While our gadgets may be new, however, the drive to measure and master time is anything but--and in A Brief History of Timekeeping, Chad Orzel traces the path from Stonehenge to your smartphone. Predating written language and marching on through human history, the desire for ever-better timekeeping has spurred technological innovation and sparked theories that...
14) The silver wind
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Titan Books
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2019.
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English
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"Martin Newland is fascinated by time. Watches and clocks are for him metaphorical time machines, a means of coming to terms with the past and voyaging into the future. But was his first timepiece a Smith, given to him on his fourteenth birthday, or the Longines he received four years later? Was it the small brass travelling clock unearthed in the run-down house for which he is to act as estate agent? And who is the maker of these time machines?"...
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Yo-kai watch volume 9
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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Nate Adams's adventures continue as he meets new Yo-kai, including Loiter Yo-kai Chummer, Sweaty Yo-kai Swelton, and Triva Yo-kai Professor.
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Yo-kai watch volume 8
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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Nate Adams was your regular, everyday kid, until he received the Yo-kai Watch, which allows him to see Yo-kai that are normally invisible to the naked eye!
17) Gauge
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Dragons of Wayward Crescent volume 2
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Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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When the town council decides to demolish the old library clock and replace it with a fancy modern one, Lucy and her mother try to save the historic timepiece--with the help of a dragon.
18) Poisoned
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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.
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Macmillian Infantil y Juvenil
Pub. Date
[2008]
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Español
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"Había una vez un reloj despertador que no sabía contar. Pero, lo que es sonar, sabía sonar de maravilla. Un día lo echaron del escaparate de la relojería, y al pobre reloj no le quedó más remedio que encontrar una solución a su falta de precisión."--P. [4] of cover.
Once there was an alarm clock that did not know how to count, but he knew how to ring. He rang all the time, but the watchmaker soon tired of hearing the incessant ringing and...
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