Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
Nonfiction · 1100L (~9th–10th grade) · 506 pages · 2022
Why we'd hand it over
Intellectually generous and genuinely thought-provoking, but the prose is adult-pitched and some claims oversimplify; works best as a guided read with a parent who can pause and contextualize.