The periodic table of elements : understanding the building blocks of everything / Jon Chad.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250767608
- ISBN: 1250767601
- ISBN: 9781250767615
- ISBN: 125076761X
- Physical Description: 119 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : First Second, 2023.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Get to know your universe!"--Cover. Chiefly illustrations. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 120). |
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Subject: | Periodic table of the elements > Comic books, strips, etc. Chemical elements > Comic books, strips, etc. |
Genre: | Graphic novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Town of Plymouth.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Pease Public Library | J GRA 546.80222 CHAD
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34598001006611 | Children's Graphic Novels | Available | - |
Kirkus Review
Science Comics: the Periodic Table of Elements : Understanding the Building Blocks of Everything
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An evil chemist's oddly blocky fortress serves as the setting for a dream quest through the elements. Well-prepared but afflicted with severe test anxiety, Mel falls asleep the night before a chemistry exam and finds herself in the Land of the Elements, helping blobby Hydrogen recover a book of spells, er, chemistry experiments snatched by the evil Elemancer. Traveling systematically through the Periodic Fortress from Alkali Metals to Noble Gases, she's forced to draw on her knowledge of molecular processes and each group's common characteristics to get past a series of elemental monsters--and, climactically, to face her fears as the sneering nemesis assaults her with pop-quiz questions: "How many elements are there?" "Is an element's atomic number the same as its weight?" "What do you call it when matter changes from a solid to a gas?" Along with rooting for the young savant, readers will have challenges of their own to face, as Chad loads the script and art with information on atoms and atomic numbers, compounds versus mixtures, ionic and covalent bonding, isotopes, allotropes, radioactivity, the periodic table's origins and organization, and how select elements of the 118 identified so far have been put to use. Mel, who like her comforting mom (the only other human figure) presents as Black, wakes up ready to tackle the ultimate test with new, and just possibly contagious, confidence in her preparation. Solid gold. (table of elements, metric conversion chart, glossary, bibliography) (Graphic nonfiction. 11-15) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.