Best History & Social Studies Books for 6th Grade

Sixth graders, ages eleven and twelve, can dig into history and civics here through books built on photographs, primary sources and personal stories. Elizabeth Partridge's Seen and Unseen, a Sibert Medal winner, compares how three photographers documented the Japanese American incarceration at Manzanar, and Veronica Chambers's Call and Response places the Black Lives Matter movement within the longer struggle for civil rights. Indigenous Ingenuity and Stealing Little Moon add Native history and science to the list.