Bernie Bridges, the egotistical planner and schemer for a group of fourth-graders at The Rotten School, is determined to outsmart his rival in a pie-eating contest.

"Don't beat the clock! Tara the terrible. That's what Michael Webster calls his bratty little sister. She loves getting Michael in trouble. Making his life miserable. Things couldn't get any worse. Then his father brings home the antique cuckoo clock. It's old. It's expensive. And Dad won't let anyone touch it. Poor Michael. He should have listened to his dad"--

In an alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, where a damaged clock can fracture time--and a destroyed one can stop it completely, eighteen-year-old mechanic Danny investigates fallen clock towers in British-occupied India and unravels more secrets about his and Colton's past.

TRUST NO ONE.It's the first and greatest rule Inkwell Featherfield ever learned. It's also the only way he knows how to survive--besides picking pockets, dodging the law, and using every ounce of his plucky charm. But none of this will be enough to save him now.If only he'd never snooped around a dead man's house. If only he'd never found that pocket watch full of strange magic. If only he'd known the old man had snuffed it at the hands of the ghostly...

In an alternate 1875 England, seventeen-year-old clock mechanic Danny, aided by the boy he loves, must discover who is sabotaging the towers that control the flow of time and stop him or her before it is too late. An alternate 1875 England. In Enfield, the clock tower seems to be forever plagued with problems. Clock mechanic Danny can repair not only clockwork, but the very fabric of time. He discovers that his new apprentice is the tower's clock...

I.Q., a pet mouse, learns to tell time along with the rest of Mrs. Furber's class and worries about whether he will have his special project ready in time for Parents' Night.

The Boxcar Children try to find out if someone who makes tapping sounds at midnight plans to sabotage a convention for inventors.

A cat describes her activities at various times throughout the day from morning to night. Features a clock with movable hands.

Upon finding a mysterious pocket watch by the abandoned buildings near where he and his mother live, Reuben develops the power of invisibility, which leads to his being targeted by a band of dangerous men who are threatening the city.

A collection of fourteen fantasy stories by well-known authors, set in the age of steam engines and featuring automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never existed.