A Tick in Time is a fantasy-fiction novel with surprising twists, unusual creatures, quirky riddles and scary moments. Tommy MacArthur is a 6th-grader who is spending the summer at his grandparents' with his younger brother. Though he is warned not to run past the old pendulum clock he does, of course, and slips into another dimension. He navigates through a number of adventures before stumbling upon the solution to returning. When he shows his new friend, Noelle, how to slip into the strange land, the two of them fearlessly explore. However their younger siblings have followed them through the portal and are captured.