Best Historical Fiction Books for 9th Grade

Historical fiction for ninth graders on this page leans toward books written for teens. Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club, a National Book Award winner, is set in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1954, and M. T. Anderson's The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing follows a boy raised as part of an experiment in Boston on the eve of the American Revolution. The page also includes a novel in verse and a few longer middle-grade books.