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Possibly this book although it might be dry and too much for grownups?

https://www.amazon.com/What-Eyes-Dont-See-Resistance/dp/0399590838

It's about Dr. Mona Hanna Attisha who discovered a child lead poisoning problem in Michigan.

Jack Horner's dinosaur books are great.  I think they cover his research.  So are sort of autobiographical.

https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0BRTDW7K5?ccs_id=45733a09-d178-479d-ae5c-910a3a3aac00

Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and Walden by Thoreau are good classics if she's interested in that.

A Midwife's Tale by Lauren Ulrich is a work of historical scholarship that sets a real Early American midwife's practice records into context.  There are copious transcriptions of the diary.

https://www.amazon.com/Midwifes-Tale-Martha-Ballard-1785-1812/dp/0679733760

Here is a real book by a feisty medieval English woman who went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.  I read a version of this when I was in 8th grade and I found the lady hilarious.  It's rather unique for it's time period.

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Margery-Kempe-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140432515

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