Best History & Social Studies Books for 9th Grade

Ninth graders, ages fourteen and fifteen, can use this page to go deeper into topics that come up in high school history classes. Borderlands and the Mexican American Story questions familiar accounts of the Alamo and the border, Call and Response connects Black Lives Matter to earlier civil rights campaigns, and Seen and Unseen asks what photographs can and cannot show about the Japanese American incarceration. Each of the six books has won or been honored by a major nonfiction award.