Lauren Tarshis Books in Order

On the drought-stricken Texas plains, eleven-year-old Ray watches dust storms destroy farms, homes, and hope. When a terrifying Black Sunday storm barrels toward his town, he risks everything to protect his family and neighbors in the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.

In 1348 England, peasant girl Elsie dreams of becoming a warrior like her archer father. After she and her friend Humphrey uncover a chest of stolen treasure, a mysterious illness sweeps into their village, and Elsie must confront the terror of the Black Death up close.

Eleven-year-old Jackson Barrett thinks he knows how to handle Alaska’s wildness, until the Great Alaska Earthquake rips his coastal town apart. Swallowed by a crack in the ground and battered by aftershocks, he must rely on new classmates and family to make it through.

Snow traps two trains high in Washington’s Cascade Mountains, where passengers wait day after day for the tracks to clear. For one young girl, the endless blizzard turns deadly when a midnight avalanche rips the trains from the hillside, forcing her to claw her way out of the snow.

This full-color graphic novel brings Melody Vega’s harrowing night in Glacier National Park to the page, showing how a grieving girl’s camping trip becomes a fight for survival when human carelessness draws hungry grizzlies dangerously close to her family’s cabin.

Based on the novel I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005, this graphic version follows Barry through flooded streets and collapsing houses after the levees fail, pairing the original story’s suspense with dynamic art that captures the storm’s power and the community’s resilience.

A seemingly perfect kid claims he always follows the rules—but his loyal dog knows the truth about the messes, mischief, and nose-picking that happen when no one’s looking. This funny picture book celebrates unconditional love, self-acceptance, and the secret lives kids share with their pets.

This graphic novel adaptation of I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 brings Max and Zena’s escape from a Polish ghetto and journey with Jewish partisans to life in tense, cinematic panels that highlight both the dangers they face and the courage they find.

Charlie feels lucky to live in glittering Galveston, Texas, where people insist a major hurricane could never strike. On September 8, 1900, a monstrous storm proves them wrong, and Charlie must brave surging water and flying debris as his island city disappears beneath the waves.

Rendered in bold, emotional artwork, this graphic adaptation of I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001 follows Lucas as a visit to his uncle’s New York firehouse turns into a desperate search for loved ones when the Twin Towers are hit.

Courageous Creatures spotlights four remarkable animal stories—a World War I carrier pigeon, two captive dolphins returned to the sea, thousands of penguins cleaned after an oil spill, and orphaned cheetah cubs finding an unlikely human guardian—showing how humans and animals can save one another.

This full-color graphic novel adaptation of I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 follows ten-year-old George and his sister Phoebe aboard the great ship, plunging readers into icy chaos as George fights to get his family to a lifeboat.

In this graphic retelling of I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916, Chet’s quiet New Jersey summer turns terrifying when a great white shark swims into Matawan Creek, forcing him to act fast to save himself and the friends who once played pranks on him.

Visiting his cousin Holly in the California hills is supposed to distract Josh from family troubles back home. When bone-dry forests erupt into a fast-moving wildfire, the cousins have minutes to outrun exploding trees and searing embers and find shelter in a dangerous river.

Twelve-year-old Carmen has already survived an earthquake and ocean wave back in Italy when she starts a new life in Boston’s North End. Nothing prepares her for the day a giant molasses tank explodes, sending a sticky wall of destruction racing through her neighborhood.

In Nazi-occupied Normandy, eleven-year-old Paul Colbert has watched friends disappear and his father taken away. Discovering an injured American paratrooper tangled in a tree, Paul risks everything to hide him and soon finds himself swept into the D-Day invasion.

City kid John Hale is still learning frontier life on the Dakota prairie when a sudden January blizzard slams his school and homestead. With whiteout winds burying everything in snow, John fights exhaustion, fear, and the deadly cold to make it back to his family.

Every summer, Melody Vega escapes to Glacier National Park, but this year the mountains only remind her that her mom is gone. When a hungry grizzly bear attacks near their cabin, Mel is thrust into a terrifying night that changes how people see wild bears forever.

Tornado Terror focuses on two of history’s most frightening twisters—the 1925 Tri-State Tornado and the 2011 Joplin tornado—told through young survivors’ eyes, then profiles the scientists and storm chasers working to understand and predict these violent storms.

After fleeing his cruel uncle in 1776, eleven-year-old Nathaniel Fox stumbles into General Washington’s struggling army outside New York. As British forces close in for the Battle of Brooklyn, Nate must decide how far he’ll go to fight for freedom and protect new friends.

Hugo Ballard boards the luxurious airship Hindenburg with his sick little sister, hoping a quick trip to America will save her life. When delays, secrets, and a sudden explosion collide over New Jersey, Hugo has seconds to rescue his family from a sky full of fire.

Eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe thinks the scariest thing in the Washington woods is a campfire legend about a witch. Then Mount St. Helens erupts for real, turning the forest into a storm of ash and rock as Jess fights to guide her injured friends to safety.

Extreme Weather! collects three gripping accounts of real people caught in the elements: brothers trapped in the 2011 Joplin tornado, a skier buried by an Alaskan avalanche, and a teen whose neighborhood is devastated by Hurricane Sandy.

On a visit to booming Chicago in 1871, young Oscar expects excitement—not walls of flame devouring the wooden city. As the Great Fire roars through crowded streets, he and a new friend race across burning bridges and collapsing buildings in a desperate search for safety.

Nature Attacks! gathers four true survival stories: a boy stalked by a shark in 1916, a family fleeing the Peshtigo fire, villagers facing the eruption of Mount Tambora, and a teen stung by a deadly box jellyfish, plus science sidebars and safety tips.

Eleven-year-old Dex eagerly joins storm chaser Dr. Gage for what he thinks will be a thrilling science adventure. When an EF5 tornado tears through Joplin, Missouri, their high-tech SUV is no match for the storm, and Dex must dig deep to protect others amid the wreckage.

Jewish siblings Max and Zena Rosen escape their Polish ghetto in 1944, running into forests patrolled by Nazi soldiers. Taken in by resistance fighters, they face bombings, hunger, and betrayal as they struggle to stay together and outwit the occupying army.

In bustling Pompeii, Marcus feels sure the rumbling beneath Mount Vesuvius means trouble, even when most neighbors shrug it off. When the volcano finally erupts, hurling ash and rock over the city, Marcus and his father fight choking darkness to escape the inferno.

This narrative nonfiction collection shares five real kids’ stories of survival, from the Children’s Blizzard on the prairie to the Titanic sinking, the Boston molasses flood, the 2011 Japanese tsunami, and the Henryville tornado, with photos, maps, and gripping disaster facts.

Still grieving his father’s death, Ben travels with his family to his dad’s seaside hometown in Japan. When a massive earthquake and tsunami strike, Ben is swept away from everyone he loves and must draw on his father’s lessons to survive in the wreckage.

Newsboy Leo loves roaming the steep streets of booming San Francisco—until an early-morning earthquake rips the city apart. Trapped among collapsing buildings and raging fires, Leo and two friends must rely on quick thinking and courage to escape the ruins.

In 1863, Thomas and his little sister Birdie escape the Southern farm where they were enslaved and fall in with a Union regiment marching toward Pennsylvania. At Gettysburg, the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, Thomas must face musket fire and chaos to keep them both alive.

Football-obsessed Lucas skips school to visit his Uncle Benny at a New York City firehouse on a bright September morning. When planes strike the World Trade Center, Lucas is swept into the unfolding disaster and must navigate smoke, fear, and falling towers to reach his family.

New York city kid Danny Crane is just getting used to life in Hawaii when Japanese planes roar over Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Separated from his mother in the chaos, he races through burning streets to find her and stay alive.

Eleven-year-old Barry Tucker is stranded in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hits and his family can’t evacuate. When the levees fail and floodwaters smash through his neighborhood, Barry is torn from his parents and must battle the storm alone to survive.

Ten-year-old George Calder can’t believe his luck: he and his sister Phoebe are sailing home to America on the Titanic, the grandest ship ever built. When an iceberg tears open the hull, George must find his family and survive the freezing Atlantic night.

Ten-year-old Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in his uncle’s New Jersey town when reports of shark attacks along the coast reach Matawan Creek. A summer of pranks turns deadly as Chet comes face to face with a great white and must save his friends.

As the Spring Fling dance approaches, Emma-Jean is puzzled by a strange fluttering in her chest whenever Will Keeler appears. While she investigates a secret admirer for her friend Colleen, she’s forced to untangle her own confusing feelings about friendship and first love.

At William Gladstone Middle School, brilliant but socially awkward seventh-grader Emma-Jean Lazarus prefers to observe classmates like a scientist. When she decides to help kind, tearful Colleen with a problem, her logical plans explode into messy drama that pushes her out of her comfort zone.