Best Historical Fiction Books for 12th Grade

Seniors looking for historical fiction with depth can choose from six prize-winning novels here. Thanhhà Lại's Butterfly Yellow follows a Vietnamese refugee and the aspiring cowboy who helps her search Texas for her lost brother, and African Town recounts, in verse, the voyage of the Clotilda and the community its survivors built in Alabama. Other picks are set in 1950s San Francisco, postwar Florida and Boston on the eve of the Revolution.