Start with high-confidence history of science for teens books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Blood, Bullets, and Bones
Bridget Heos
Charles and Emma
Deborah Heiligman
Galileo and the Magic Numbers
Sidney Rosen
Discovering Life’s Story: Biology’s Beginnings
Joy Hakim
Discovering Life’s Story: the Evolution of an Idea
The Story of Science: Newton at the Center
Patient Zero
Marilee Peters
Magnificent Minds, 2nd Edition
Pendred E. Noyce
Hidden Systems
Dan Nott
