The Clock Author:James Lincoln Collier Annie Steel, 15, lives in Connecticut in 1810, where the new textile mill heralds the beginning of a new age. Her spendthrift father, unable to resist such purchases as the newly invented clock, gets deeply in debt, and Annie must go to work in the mill. There she fends off the sexual advances of the cruel overseer who physically abuses the work... more »ers, even causing the death of Annie's disabled friend. When she discovers that the man is a thief, she bravely exposes him.« less