Historical Fiction or Nonfiction books good for a 9th grader?

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Carla

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For summer reading.
Has to be at least 150 pages and appropriate.

She's picky, so good books maybe she could even relate to? Or just books you think a 14 year old teenager would like. Thank You.
 
historical books:

nine days a queen
beware princess elizabeth
mary bloody mary


any books:

twilight saga
harry potter series
song of the lioness (4 books)
a summer to die
 
Between my daughter and son - We read these the summers before 8th, 9th and 10th grades and during the school year. All interesting and age appropriate reads.
Diary of Ann Frank
Alicia: My Story by Alicia Appleman-Juman
A Polish teenager escapes the Nazis and helps other Jews in the progress.
Lives of Extraordinary women: Rulers, Rebels (and what the neighbors thought) by Kathleen Krull and Kathryn Hewitt
(Also in this series: Lives of the Presidents, Lives of the Musicians)
Fire, Bed and Bone / Henrietta Branford - is a story of the Peasant's Revolt narrated by a dog.
Shakespeare's Scribe / Gary Blackwood
The Sign of the Chrysanthemum / Katherine Paterson. The protagonist is a 13-year-old male and it is set in medieval Japan
The Door in the Wall / Marguerite DeAngeli. The setting is medieval
Matilda Bone and The Midwife's Apprentice / Karen Cushman
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
A Step From Heaven by An Na
I Am Rembrandt's Daughter
 
Try "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham

I know, title sounds totally depressing. But it's actually a very good read; interesting, quick moving, and not what you'd think from the title. It's semi-autobiographical historical fiction -- so it sort of fits both categories. :) Any library should have it.
 
uprising by m. p. haddix. it's a wonderful hist. fic set in 1910, about the mill fires. i read at 14, and it was great.
the book thief might be a bit old for her, but it is by far the most beautiful book i have ever read.
 
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