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.

Source: composed

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 November 2026.

  1. 12019–
  2. 22019–
  3. 3
    Alice on the Island: A Pearl Harbor Survival Story2019 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2019112
  4. 42019112
  5. 52019112
  6. 62019112
  7. 72019112
  8. 82019112
  9. 92020112
  10. 102020112
  11. 11
    Sarah Journeys West: An Oregon Trail Survival Story2020 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2020112
  12. 122020–
  13. 132020–
  14. 142020112
  15. 152020–
  16. 162020–
  17. 172021–
  18. 182021–
  19. 192021–
  20. 202021–
  21. 21
    Lena and the Burning of Greenwood2022 · 112 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2022112
  22. 222022–
  23. 232022–
  24. 242023–
  25. 252023–
  26. 262023–
  27. 272023–
  28. 282024–
  29. 292024–
  30. 302024–
  31. 312025–
  32. 322025–

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.

When Girls Survive books were published

Publication distribution by decade, showing when Girls Survive titles appeared. 2020s was the most productive decade with 24 titles.

2010s
8
2020s
24

32 books total across 2 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.

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.