I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964

Its place in I Survived

I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964 is book 23 in the I Survived series. It follows I Survived the Wellington Avalanche, 1910. It is followed by I Survived the Black Death, 1348. 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…