Reddit mentions: The best teen & young adult chemistry books

Hi, I do iGCSE Physics, so I think I can help.

ZNotes

ZNotes creates some pretty nice note summary pages, so I'd take a look at them.

Oxford Revision Guides

CIE Students can buy Oxford's Revision Guides from Amazon. They have summary notes and past paper questions.

Although it matches the Oxford Textbooks, they are applicable to all CIE Students. Here is the Chemistry one...

Letts Revision Guides

Although I haven't used them, Letts also make some revision guides. I'm not sure how good they are though.

Here is the Physics one...

CIE Website

If she looks on the website, the old spec is still extremely relevant and has all the spec papers and support materials.

She could print off the spec and make notes (making sure she completely understands all the spec points along the way).

Papa Cambridge

This site has a tonne of past papers for all CIE Subjects

https://papacambridge.com/past-papers/cie/

Robert Martin Notes

These are by far the best notes I've found for iGCSE Science. \<3 He is literally my god right now (Thanks Robert, you're so amazing!!!)

https://igcsesciencenotes.wordpress.com/

I hope this helps a bunch! Good luck to her.

Go on Amazon and search for something like "periodic table for kids" or "kid chemistry book". You'll find many. A good one about the periodic table:

https://www.amazon.com/Periodic-Table-Sean-Callery/dp/1338185039/ref=sr_1_11/142-9286445-8541601?ie=UTF8&qid=1539706646&sr=8-11&keywords=periodic+table+for+kids

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Here is a series that looks like it is for young kids but that is actually more advanced than you may want:

https://www.amazon.com/Basher-Science-Complete-Periodic-Elements/dp/0753471973/ref=sr_1_6/142-9286445-8541601?ie=UTF8&qid=1539706646&sr=8-6&keywords=periodic+table+for+kids

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I homeschool my kid in science and I think you are better off with a more general science encyclopedia. This one is excellent:

https://www.amazon.com/Science-Encyclopedia-Kirsteen-Robson/dp/1409582965/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1539707168&sr=8-2&keywords=usborne+science

Are you following a specific curriculum in science? Have you looked into "The Well-Trained Mind"? It's a fantastic resource fr homeschooling parents. Whether you decide to follow their curriculum or not, it has terrific, curated lists of reading.

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Ah, Cambridge IGCSE is different. They still use A*-G in some subjects.<br />
Make sure you're doing Cambridge IGCSE as opposed to edexcel IGCSE though of course, and that you are <br />
definitely on the old A*-G syllabus.<br />

However, you said you are doing the 3 separate sciences now. This means you will want the coursebooks for biology, chemistry and physics. Those say they're for the 2016 syllabus despite the Cambridge website having a different PDF document for the 2020-2021 syllabus, however due to the fact that I can't find any later versions of the textbooks and the 2020-2021 syllabus doesn't have the giant warning that it's been revised, I think this should be fine.

EDIT: edited because putting two *s in the same paragraph makes a lot of it go italics, so I solved this with code format.

I can't think of any websites, but have you looked at all the past papers from different exam boards? I remember borrowing revision guides from the libraries which also had a lot of questions and answers too. Hope this helps!

p.s. if you do AQA Chemistry, try these revision guides : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Student-Support-Materials-AQA-Foundation/dp/0007268254

One more request for any of the following 3 ebooks.
Must be the editions found in these links:

New Grade 9-1 GCSE Chemistry for AQA: Student Book (CGP GCSE Chemistry 9-1 Revision)

New Grade 9-1 GCSE Biology for AQA: Student Book (CGP GCSE Biology 9-1 Revision)

New Grade 9-1 GCSE Physics for AQA: Student Book (CGP GCSE Physics 9-1 Revision)

Thank you