Lauren Tarshis

I 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…

I 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…

I 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…

The 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…

I 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…

I 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…

I 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…

I 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…

I 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…