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The Fun and Easy Chemistry for Kids: The science of how everything works, from the periodic table to kitchen experiments, for ages 8-13
Paperback
Series: Stem Books for Kids
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 23 2026
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
If you have already answered why four times before breakfast, this one is for your kid.
Chemistry sounds like a high school subject, so books for this age either talk down to a nine year old or read like a shrunken textbook. Your kid does not want a worksheet. They want to know why bread rises, why onions sting, and why salt is safe when neither thing it is made of is.
By the last page your kid can look at an ordinary thing and say what it is made of and why it behaves that way. They stop memorizing science and start noticing it.
WHAT YOUR KID WILL ACTUALLY LEARN
- Understand the periodic table through a seating chart that shows why elements sit where they do.
- Explain what everything is made of starting with atoms, then molecules, then the bonds that hold them together.
- Spot a reaction as it happens using the five clues that tell you one just did.
- Make sense of solids, liquids and gases and see all four states of matter side by side.
- Know why the onion stings and why dough rises, in a full chapter on the chemistry already in your kitchen.
- Handle acids and bases with the pH scale in plain language, including what neutralizing actually does.
- Keep the conversation going with a glossary and discussion questions closing every chapter.
INSIDE THE EIGHT CHAPTERS
- What Is Chemistry? Atoms, molecules, and why a chemist thinks like a detective.
- The Building Blocks. Elements, the periodic table, and how atoms combine to make everything else.
- Mixing It Up. Mixtures, solutions, and what really happens when sugar disappears into water.
- Reactions! The five signs a reaction happened, plus rust, cooking, burning, and the baking soda volcano.
- States of Matter. Solids, liquids, gases, and the fourth state most kids are never told about.
- Acids, Bases, and the pH Scale. Why lemon juice and soap sit at opposite ends, and what neutralizing really does.
- Chemistry in Your Kitchen. Bread dough, onions that make you cry, and why cooking is a chemical reaction.
- Chemistry and the Future. Where all of this goes next, from everyday reactions to rocket fuel.
WHY THIS ONE IS DIFFERENT
Most science books for this age hand a kid facts to remember. This one explains the mechanism underneath, so the facts have somewhere to attach. Nineteen illustrations do the heavy lifting where words alone would not, from the parts of an atom to the four states of matter side by side. Every chapter closes with Terms to Remember, a plain language glossary, and Things to Think About, questions that turn the reading into a conversation rather than a quiz.
It is written to be read by a confident reader around 8 to 12, or read together with a younger one who keeps asking why.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Curious kids roughly 8 to 12, and the adults who keep getting asked questions they cannot answer. Homeschool families who need a chemistry unit that a child will actually finish. Anyone shopping for a gift that outlasts the week it was given.
WHO IT IS NOT FOR
Anyone wanting an experiment manual. This book explains the science instead of listing activities to run.
Scroll up and grab your copy, then hand it to the kid who will not stop asking why
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