I Survived · Book 20

I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018

Published
1 September 2020
Pages
144
ISBN-13
9781546137719
Type
novel
Cover of I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018

About this book

I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018, published in 2020 at 144 pages, is a fully standalone entry in the I Survived series -- like every book in the run, it needs no other title to make sense, so it can be picked up purely because the disaster in its title is the one that grabs a reader.

Key facts about I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018

Lauren Tarshis wrote I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1 September 2020. The book has 144 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781546137719 to find the main one.

I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 is book 20 of 25 in the I Survived series. The series has 25 published books. However, the series starts with I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (2010). I Survived the Dust Bowl, 1935 is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 7 October 2025.

Additionally, Lauren Tarshis writes Emma-Jean Lazarus and I Survived True Stories as separate series. Those series sit on our middle grade, historical fiction and children's nonfiction shelves. Meanwhile, I Survived the Dust Bowl, 1935 is the latest published Lauren Tarshis book on file, from 7 October 2025.

About Lauren Tarshis

Lauren Tarshis is an American children's author and editor best known for the I Survived series, a long-running line of illustrated historical-fiction chapter books that place a young protagonist inside a real historical disaster or crisis — the sinking of the Titanic, the Hindenburg explosion, Hurricane Katrina, the September 11 attacks, the Battle of Gettysburg, and dozens of others — and follow their survival through carefully researched, age-appropriate detail. See every Lauren Tarshis book in order.

Its place in I Survived

I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018 is book 20 in the I Survived series. It follows I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919. It is followed by I Survived the Galveston Hurricane, 1900. 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…

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