Best Historical Fiction Books for 7th Grade

For seventh graders, this page moves from middle-grade favorites into books written for teens. Judy Blundell's What I Saw and How I Lied, a National Book Award winner, follows a fifteen-year-old in 1947 whose family's postwar Florida vacation turns into a mystery, and Kim Johnson's The Color of a Lie looks at a Black family passing as white in a 1950s suburb. Middle-grade novels such as Bud, Not Buddy and Elijah of Buxton round out the list.