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Lauren Tarshis
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Lauren Tarshis is an American children's author and Scholastic editor, best known for the New York Times bestselling I Survived historical-fiction series for grades 3–5.
Biography
Lauren Tarshis (born November 23, 1963) is an American author of children's books, with several series of fiction, non-fiction and historical fiction held in thousands of libraries and translated into several languages. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling I Survived series, historical fiction aimed at children in grades 3–5 that focuses on historical disasters from the perspective of a child.
Tarshis also wrote Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree, a Golden Kite honor book for fiction and an Oprah's Book Club pick, and its sequel Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell in Love; those books appear on many state lists and are often used by schools in anti-bullying programs. She is SVP editor-in-chief and publisher of the Classroom Magazine Division at Scholastic, Inc., which includes Storyworks magazine for grades 3–6, which she has edited for several years.
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Books by Lauren Tarshis
I survived the California wildfires, 2018
In the 20th I Survived book, eleven-year-old Josh leaves New Jersey for rural northern California and must face the devastating 2018 fire season; on a forest trip he and his cousin are suddenly caught in the path of a fast-moving, town-threatening firestorm.