Books with title The Grandfather Clock

From Roger Hargreaves, author of the Mr. Men Little Miss series, this classic story teaches basic concepts in a fun, accessible style.Grandfather Clock doesn't need a watch, because he turns into the time! Throughout the day, Grandfather Clock helps people around town tell time by moving the arms on his face to show the time. Follow along through all the times of the day—all the way until bedtime!

James Fletcher is having a bad day: after being extorted out of his lunch money, he is forced to turn to his school for a loan. Then he gets home and finds his model shunter missing.James sets out to solve the riddle of its disappearance. He has almost given up hope when he discovers an ancient grandfather clock locked away in his basement. Curiosity gets the better of him, and he finds himself whisked back in time to 1941 and war-torn England.There he recovers his favourite locomotive and makes a new friend, but that’s only the start of his adventure...

Grandy is a grandfather clock that stands in the corner of a big clock house.He is the most beautiful of all the clocks in the clock house, the grandest! He is also the oldest. However, he is the only clock that chimes perfectly on time. All the other clocks seem to be chiming perfectly off time. Something very weird is going on in the clock house and the old clock maker is at his wit's end and doesn't know what to do when one night he has a strange dream.......

High school juniors Tosh, Chani, Garrison, and Tucker are put together for a school project. Unlikely acquaintances with vast differences, they struggle to agree on their project when an old, seemingly normal grandfather clock opens its door and leads the teens into an unknown land where Unicorns make the laws and Sorcerers use lightning. With time to kill and no way home, the four classmates travel around this new world called Chyria and meet a variety of people: a charming young Knight named Jehan; Maverick, a Fairy who sparkles in more way than one; a conceited Merman called Marsh; Jehan's cautious friend, Ansiau, and many more, including a few Unicorns.Upon meeting these new people, the kids get sucked into solving the problem behind a mysterious string of kidnappings, landing them in a situation involved with a spike-covered dragon, a flood, cages, and some very angry creatures. Along the way, they discover more about the hidden world, and themselves, learning they are not who they think they are.

High school juniors Tosh, Chani, Garrison, and Tucker are put together for a school project. Unlikely acquaintances with vast differences, they struggle to agree on their project when an old, seemingly normal grandfather clock opens its door and leads the teens into an unknown land where Unicorns make the laws and Sorcerers use lightning. With time to kill and no way home, the four classmates travel around this new world called Chyria and meet a variety of people: a charming young Knight named Jehan; Maverick, a Fairy who sparkles in more way than one; a conceited Merman called Marsh; Jehan's cautious friend, Ansiau, and many more, including a few Unicorns. Upon meeting these new people, the kids get sucked into solving the problem behind a mysterious string of kidnappings, landing them in a situation involved with a spike-covered dragon, a flood, cages, and some very angry creatures. Along the way, they discover more about the hidden world, and themselves, learning they are not who they think they are.

Leslie Rieser was born in Rhodesia(now Zimbabwe) in 1962. She moved to live in South Africa in 1979 where she later married. She now lives in Switzerland with my husband, and teaches English to foreign speaking children. She loves children and enjoys teaching them. Her love for children is clearly indicated in her books, which also contain a number of moral messages and are very exciting and action-packed. In February 2010 “Henny and His Extraordinary Rollerblades” was released. “Grandy the Grandfather Clock” is her second children’s novel.

Jackson is looking forward to spending the summer at his grandparents’ house. But there’s something strange about their old grandfather clock. It hasn’t rung in one hundred years. So what’s that noise coming from it in the middle of the night? When Grandfather disappears, Jackson discovers the clock is the key to finding him. With the unexpected help of a girl from school, he is swept into an adventure that’s literally out of this world!