Adam's Atomic Adventures

by Alice L. Baxter

Adam is having a miserable day. First, he causes his team to lose the soccer game, and then he gets teased for being the shortest boy in the fifth grade. Just when Adam thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong, Mrs. Gold, his rather peculiar science teacher, makes him stay behind after class. Adam's day goes from bad to just plain weird when Mrs. Gold shares with him a startling she's much more than a science teacher-Mrs. Gold is a powerful alchemist who's counting on Adam's help to save the world! Mrs. Gold has chosen Adam, one of her best students, for a critical task. She plans to shrink Adam down to the microscopic size of a single atom and send him to the Periodic School for the Elements to search for Ollie, a missing atom of oxygen. Without Ollie, the planet's supply of oxygen will vanish. As Mrs. Gold produces the philosopher's stone, the secret magical tool of alchemists, Adam is suddenly thrust into the bizarre and treacherous realm of chemical elements. He must take advantage of his scientific knowledge to find Ollie before it's too late. Join Adam on a fascinating journey filled with fun and fantasy as he fights to defend the world from elemental disaster in Adam's Atomic Adventures.

Genres: Science

72 pages, Paperback

First published October 18, 2007

Reviews

[Tamara York · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for Build Your Library homeschool curriculum. This was a great chemistry adventure in the Periodic School of Elements. We learned a lot about chemistry while enjoying a well-written story. The cover is truly awful, but the story was really good.

[Heather O'Neill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adam is an elementary aged boy who one day finds out that he must go on a mission to the "Periodic School for the Elements" to find Ollie, the missing Oxygen atom and bring him back to his classroom and save the world!

We were reading this book as a part of chemistry for my 4th graders homeschool lessons. I thought that it was a fun companion book to learning about the periodic table and the elements. There are not a lot of elements that the author goes over, but the ones that she does she tells it in a fun story to make you remember some stuff about the elements. The book is really short and can be finished quickly (we spread it out over two weeks). Today we finished the book and I heard my son reciting one of the lines, which had Mendeleev's name it and it makes me excited that he finally remembers that name!

[Elsa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read Adam's Atomic Adventures with my son as part of the Build Your Library homeschool curriculum for third grade. It was a short, imaginative introduction to the periodic table and other chemistry basics. My son really enjoyed it!