I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011

Its place in I Survived

I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011 is book 12 in the I Survived series. It follows I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871. It is followed by I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937. 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…