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Lauren Tarshis's I Survived series is a collection of 23 middle-grade historical fiction books published by Scholastic Inc., beginning in 2010 with I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912, and continuing through 2025. Each standalone novel follows a fictional child protagonist experiencing a real historical disaster, such as the sinking of the Titanic, Hurricane Katrina, and the Black Death. The series presents significant global events through the perspective of a child survivor, combining a fictional survival story with factual information about the real-life calamity. Written for middle-school-aged readers, the books aim to introduce young audiences to historical crises while emphasizing the personal experience during a crisis. The tagline for the series is "When disaster strikes, heroes are made.
Books in this series
Ordered by first publication where known. The official numbering for this series is incomplete in our sources, so we don't show series numbers we can't verify.
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Buy on AmazonI Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912
2010 · Lauren Tarshis
Ten-year-old George Calder is sailing to America aboard the grandest ship ever built, traveling with his aunt and younger sister. His habit of…
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Buy on AmazonI Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916
2010 · Lauren Tarshis
In the summer of 1916, Chet Roscow is spending his days at his uncle's diner in a small New Jersey shore town. When rumors of a shark prowling the…
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Buy on AmazonI Survived Hurricane Katrina 2005
2011 · Lauren Tarshis
Barry Tucker lives with his family in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina barrels toward the Gulf Coast. After the storm strands him alone amid rising…
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Buy on AmazonThe bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941
2011 · Lauren Tarshis
Eleven-year-old Danny Crane has recently moved to Honolulu with his family. On a quiet December morning in 1941, he is near Pearl Harbor when…
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Buy on AmazonI Survived: The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
2012 · Lauren Tarshis, Jennifer Bronstein and Scott Dawson
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Buy on AmazonI Survived The Attacks of September 11, 2001
2012 · Lauren Tarshis
Lucas Calder, a young football player living just outside New York City, idolizes his firefighter uncle. On the morning of September 11, 2001, a…
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Buy on AmazonI Survived The Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79
2014 · Lauren Tarshis
Marcus is a slave living in the Roman city of Pompeii in AD 79, dreaming of freedom alongside his father. When the towering mountain Vesuvius begins…
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Buy on AmazonI Survived The Nazi Invasion, 1944
2018 · Georgia Ball, Lauren Tarshis and Álvaro Sarraseca
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Buy on AmazonI survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888
2018 · Lauren Tarshis
John Hale is an eleven-year-old growing up on the harsh Dakota prairie in 1888. On a deceptively mild winter day, a monstrous blizzard sweeps in…
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Buy on AmazonI survived the attack of the grizzlies, 1967
2018 · Lauren Tarshis
Eleven-year-old Mel Mitchell is spending the summer of 1967 at Montana's Glacier National Park, where his uncle works. As food scraps and careless…
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Buy on AmazonI Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919
2019 · Lauren Tarshis
In Boston's North End in January 1919, eleven-year-old Carmen Vesto helps her family scrape by during a brutally cold winter. When a giant storage…
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Frequently asked questions
What order should I read the I Survived books in?
Publication order — Author Lauren Tarshis and publisher Scholastic number the books 1, 2, 3... in publication order; widely listed this way by booksellers and libraries
How many books are in the I Survived series?
We list 23 books by Lauren Tarshis , published between 2010–2025.
Where can I buy the I Survived books?
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