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I'm wondering about a children's chapter book I probably read around 2002-2005, though it could have been older. It may have been published by Scholastic. The main character is a girl, probably in middle school (though she could have been a little younger) from a poor family: just her mom, her, and her little sister. I think the main character takes on a lot of responsibility for the family (maybe the mom was depressed or alcoholic?). The thing that really stands out in my mind though was that the younger sister had this weird ability where if she pictured a melting clock (like in that famous Dali painting) with a certain time on it while she was falling asleep, she'd wake up exactly at that time the next day. Every night, the younger sister would ask the main character what time to "set her head" for.