I Survived 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.