Best Historical Fiction Books for 10th Grade

Tenth graders will find six award-winning novels here that use history to raise questions people still argue about today. Kim Johnson's The Color of a Lie and Judy Blundell's What I Saw and How I Lied both turn on secrets that families keep in the years after World War II, while African Town tells its story in many voices and poetic forms. The settings range from Boston before the Revolution to Texas in the 1980s.