Girls Survive Books in Order
Girls Survive contains 32 books, published between 2019 and 2025. The first book is Emmi in the City: A Great Chicago Fire Survival Story (2019) and the newest is Faye and the Dangerous Journey: An Ojibwe Removal Survival Story (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 32
- Published
- 2019–2025
- Pages on record
- 1,232 in 11 of 32 books
Girls Survive is a children's fiction series of survival stories set in history. Each title pairs a girl's name with an event: Emmi in the City: A Great Chicago Fire Survival Story and Noelle at Sea: A Titanic Survival Story opened the series in 2019, and Ann Fights for Freedom: An Underground Railroad Survival Story, Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story and Daisy and the Deadly Flu: A 1918 Influenza Survival Story followed. Thirty-two books are catalogued between 2019 and 2025, written by many hands: Nikki Shannon Smith on 5, Julie Gilbert on 4, and Jessica Gunderson, Emma Carlson Berne and Anitra Butler-Ngugi on 2 each. The volumes run to a median of 112 pages.
How many Girls Survive books are there?
Girls Survive has 32 books, released between 2019 and 2025.
Girls Survive Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 32 Girls Survive books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Emmi in the City: A Great Chicago Fire Survival Story2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
- 2Noelle at Sea: A Titanic Survival Story2019 · confirmed 1/42019–1/4
- 3Alice on the Island: A Pearl Harbor Survival Story2019 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/420191121/4
- 4Ann Fights for Freedom: An Underground Railroad Survival Story2019 · 112 pages · confirmed 2/420191122/4
- 5Charlotte Spies for Justice: A Civil War Survival Story2019 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/420191121/4
- 6Lucy Fights the Flames: A Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Survival2019 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/420191121/4
- 7Carrie and the Great Storm: A Galveston Hurricane Survival Story2019 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/420191121/4
- 8Ruth and the Night of Broken Glass: A World War II Survival Story2019 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/420191121/4
- 9Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story2020 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/420201121/4
- 10Daisy and the Deadly Flu: A 1918 Influenza Survival Story2020 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/420201121/4
- 11Sarah Journeys West: An Oregon Trail Survival Story2020 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/420201121/4
- 12Lily and the Great Quake: A San Francisco Earthquake Survival Story2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 13Rebecca Rides for Freedom: An American Revolution Survival Story2020 · confirmed 2/42020–2/4
- 14Maribel Versus the Volcano: A Mount St. Helens Survival Story2020 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/420201121/4
- 15Tara and the Towering Wave: An Indian Ocean Tsunami Survival Story2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 16Leah Braves the Flood: A Great Molasses Flood Survival Story2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 17Molly and the Twin Towers: A 9/11 Survival Story2021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
- 18Hettie and the London Blitz: A World War II Survival Story2021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
- 19Maria and the Plague: A Black Death Survival Story2021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
- 20Constance and the Dangerous Crossing: A Mayflower Survival Story2021 · confirmed 2/42021–2/4
- 21Lena and the Burning of Greenwood2022 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/420221121/4
- 22Audrey Under the Big Top: A Hartford Circus Fire Survival Story2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 23Maddy and the Monstrous Storm: A Schoolhouse Blizzard Survival2022 · confirmed 1/42022–1/4
- 24Claudia in the Storm: A Hurricane Katrina Survival Story2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 25Fumiko and a Tokyo Tragedy: A Great Kanto Earthquake Survival Story2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 26Flor Fights Back: A Stonewall Riots Survival Story2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 27Essie and the March on Selma: A Bloody Sunday Survival Story2023 · confirmed 1/42023–1/4
- 28Cora and the Terrible Twister: A Tri-State Tornado Survival Story2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 29Nina Under Arrest: A Birmingham Children's Crusade Survival Story2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 30Min and the Protests: A Tiananmen Square Survival Story2024 · confirmed 1/42024–1/4
- 31Penny and the Tragic Voyage: A Lusitania Survival Story2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
- 32Faye and the Dangerous Journey: An Ojibwe Removal Survival Story2025 · confirmed 1/42025–1/4
Where to start with Girls Survive
Start with Emmi in the City: A Great Chicago Fire Survival Story (2019), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Girls Survive book?
Faye and the Dangerous Journey: An Ojibwe Removal Survival Story (2025) is the newest Girls Survive book released so far.
Is there a new Girls Survive book coming?
No next Girls Survive book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Girls Survive at a glance
- Still running
- Girls Survive is still running, with a title published as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Girls Survive books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 1,232 pages across the 11 of 32 books with a recorded length, a median of 112 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Girls Survive books, 24 of 32, were published in the 2020s.
- Attribution
- Of the 32 titles, 5 are credited to Nikki Shannon Smith, 4 to JulieGilbert, 2 to Jessica Gunderson and 2 to Emma Carlson Berne. A further 15 writers are credited. 5 titles carry no credit.
What the Girls Survive books are about
12 of the 32 Girls Survive books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 11 of 12. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Children's fiction 11 of 12 books
- Survival 5 of 12 books
- Self-esteem 3 of 12 books
- African Americans 2 of 12 books
- United states, history, 19th century 2 of 12 books