I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001

Its place in I Survived

I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001 is book 6 in the I Survived series. It follows I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906. It is followed by I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863. See the full I Survived reading order.

Each I Survived novel drops a young narrator into the middle of a real historical disaster -- the sinking of the Titanic, the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hurricane Katrina, the September 11th attacks, the Black Death -- and follows their fight to get out alive. Lauren Tarshis grounds every book in careful historical research (each includes a nonfiction author's note explaining what's true and pointing readers toward further reading), but the storytelling itself is pure survival-adventure momentum: a kid protagonist…