I Survived · Book 1

I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912

by Lauren Tarshis

Published
1 June 2010
Pages
121
ISBN-13
9781338120929
Type
novel

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About this book

I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (2010, 121 pages) is book 1 in Lauren Tarshis's I Survived series, dropping a young narrator into the middle of the disaster named in the title and following their fight to get out alive -- grounded in real historical research, with a nonfiction author's note at the end separating fact from story.

Its place in I Survived

I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 is book 1 in the I Survived series. It is followed by I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916. 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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