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Oliver and the Time Map

25 chapters

Synopsis

Every Monday evening, Oliver helped Professor Alma in the attic filled with old clocks and notebooks. The whole room ticked like a hundred tiny hearts....

Chapters

Chapter 1: The Map Under the Clock
Chapter 2: A Robot Who Counts
Chapter 3: A Neighborhood in Ink
Chapter 4: The Brass Lens
Chapter 5: The Bakery with the Green Door
Chapter 6: Sunday Loaves
Chapter 7: An Oven for Everyone
Chapter 8: The Crooked Chestnut Tree
Chapter 9: The Wall That Was
Chapter 10: A Path That Bends
Chapter 11: Rain on the Old Bridge
Chapter 12: Signs in the Stone
Chapter 13: Paper and Crayons
Chapter 14: Noon in a Muddle
Chapter 15: The First Chime
Chapter 16: Four Bells, No Order
Chapter 17: The Ticking Maze
Chapter 18: The Door of the First Stone
Chapter 19: Bread or Branches
Chapter 20: Tick Loses Count
Chapter 21: The Girl at the Rope
Chapter 22: The Tune in Order
Chapter 23: Up the Clock Tower
Chapter 24: Noon in Perfect Harmony
Chapter 25: A New Notebook on the Shelf

Chapter 1: The Map Under the Clock

Every Monday evening, Oliver helped Professor Alma in the attic filled with old clocks and notebooks. The whole room ticked like a hundred tiny hearts.

Tonight the round window showed a deep blue sky over the chimneys. Oliver was dusting the grandfather clock when a rolled paper slid out from underneath it.

He knelt on the floorboards and untied its faded string. It was a map, and it began to glow like warm honey.

Something clicked on the stack of books beside him. The little brass robot that had always sat there, still as a teapot, reached out and touched the map.

Professor Alma stood by the stairs with her tea and a small book. “Well,” she said, not surprised at all. “Shall we find out what it wants to show us?”

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