Best Historical Fiction Books for 6th Grade

Sixth graders will find historical fiction here that spans more than a century of American life. Jack Gantos's Dead End in Norvelt, a Newbery Medal winner, follows a boy grounded for the summer in a small Pennsylvania town in 1962, and Lesa Cline-Ransome's Finding Langston follows a boy who moves from Alabama to Chicago in 1946 and discovers the poetry of Langston Hughes at the public library. Ghost stories, novels in verse and family dramas are all part of the mix.