Lauren Tarshis - Wikipedia Lauren Tarshis Lauren Tarshis Lauren Tarshis Occupation Author Nationality American Citizenship American Alma mater Barnard College Period 1989 -- Genre Children 's literature Website www.laurentarshis.com Lauren Tarshis is an author of children 's books, with several series of fiction and historical works found in thousands of libraries and translated into several languages. She is also the editor of Storyworks magazine. Tarshis is the author of the New York Times Bestselling series I Survived. The books, fast - paced historical fiction for kids in grades 3 -- 5, each focus on a historical disaster from the perspective of a boy or girl who lived to tell the tale. Tarshis is also the author of Emma - Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree, a Golden Kite honor book for fiction and Oprah book club pick, and the sequel Emma - Jean Lazarus Fell in Love. The books are on many state lists and are often used by schools as part of anti-bully programs. In addition to writing books, Tarshis is an editorial director for language arts at Scholastic, and the editor of Storyworks magazine, a language arts magazine for children in grades 3 - 5. She also oversees Scope magazine, a language arts magazine for middle - schoolers. Contents 1 Bibliography 2 Emma - Jean Lazarus 3 Other works 4 References 5 External links Bibliography Title Publication date Type Notes Taking Off : Extraordinary Ways to Spend Your First Year Out of College January 1, 1989 Non-fiction Kate : The Katharine Hepburn Album February 1, 1993 Non-fiction Emma - Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree May 15, 2008 Fiction Emma - Jean Lazarus Fell In Love May 13, 2010 Fiction I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 June 1, 2010 Historical Fiction I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 September 1, 2010 Historical Fiction I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 March 1, 2011 Historical Fiction I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 October 1, 2011 Historical Fiction I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 March 1, 2012 Historical Fiction I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001 July 1, 2012 Historical Fiction I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 February 1, 2013 Historical Fiction I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 August 27, 2013 Historical Fiction I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 February 25, 2014 Historical Fiction I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, A.D. 79 August 26, 2014 Historical Fiction I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 February 24, 2015 Historical Fiction I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011 August 25, 2015 Historical Fiction I Survived the Hindenburg Disaster, 1937 February 21, 2016 Historical Fiction I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 August 30, 2016 Historical Fiction I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 August 29, 2017 Historical Fiction I Survived the Children 's Blizzard, 1888 February 28, 2018 Historical Fiction Emma - Jean Lazarus Emma - Jean Lazarus fell out of a tree ( 2007 ) in over 1,600 WorldCat libraries ( Reviewed by Bulletin of the Center for Children 's Books ) Translated into French as Pourquoi Emma - Jane est tombée de l'arbre, et ce qui s'ensuivit... ( 2010 ) Translated into German as Emma - Jean und das Geheimnis des Glücks ( 2009 ) Translated into Japanese as エマ ・ ジーン ・ ラザルス 、 木 から 落ちる / Ema jīn razarusu ki kara ochiru ( 2008 ) Emma - Jean Lazarus fell in love ( 2009 ) ( in over 1,000 WorldCat Libraries ) Translated into German as Emma - Jean und das Geheimnis der Freundschaft ( 2011 ) Other works The making of Ironweed ( 1988 ) I References Jump up ^ `` Tarshis, Lauren ''. WorldCat.org. Jump up ^ Something About the Author, v. 187 Jump up ^ `` Lauren Tarshis ''. WorldCat.org. Jump up ^ OCLC 70707706 Jump up ^ Stevenson, Deborah ( February 2007 ). `` Emma - Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree ( review ) ''. Bulletin of the Center for Children 's Books. 60 ( 6 ) : 269 -- 270. doi : 10.1353 / bcc. 2007.0131. OCLC 4639512499. Jump up ^ OCLC 270230868 External links Official website I Survived site BNF : cb162296713 ( data ) GND : 137150024 ISNI : 0000 0000 6690 4994 LCCN : n87928430 NDL : 01136890 SUDOC : 165288981 VIAF : 91874845 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lauren_Tarshis&oldid=851063940 '' Categories : American children 's writers American women writers Living people Writers from Albuquerque, New Mexico American women children 's writers 1963 births Hidden categories : All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from November 2015 Articles with unsourced statements from February 2018 Official website different in Wikidata and Wikipedia Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NDL identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 19 July 2018, at 20 : 24 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: what is the genre of i survived books
Answer: Historical Fiction