";s:4:"text";s:2539:" A little fiction and a history lesson. I enjoyed how the author weaved in flashbacks (memory moments) to help develop the characters and move along the plot.My younger kids love these. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The water mains all broke in the earthquake and so the citizens of SF could do little but stand and watch the city burn before their eyes. After three days in Golden Gate Park, which serves as a makeshift shelter for the poor, displaced and injured, Leo, Morris and Wilkie get their tickets.
It great and filled with action and intense moments. I feel bad for Leo and what he went through. Leo decides to sell the gold nugget, knowing Grandpop would understand. They are historical fiction, introducing real events with fictional characters. Each book takes readers into the heart of history's most thrilling and terrifying events, including the sinking of the Titanic, the Shark Attacks of 1916, Hurricane Katrina, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the San Francisco earLauren Tarshis often wonders how she came to spend most of her waking moments thinking about disasters, as the author of the children's historical fiction series "I Survived." This book is historical fiction. This book is written by Lauren Tarshis. The plot of the book is about a young boy named Leo who lives in San Francisco. So the bullies Fletch and Wilkie take his golden nugget and Leo says that he never told anyone except a skinny little kid named Morris. When he gets out, Wilkie and Leo find Morris and save him from the fire but let Fletch die.
TheRead this with one of my young readers and having lived in SF for 25 years and always been fascinated with its gold rush history and its long ongoing relationships with earthquakes, it was fun to read this along with a child of the city who did not know much about the epic historical earthquake of 1906 which decimated the city.
Published (Today was Audio)i've long since grown out of this series, but they still make nice, quick reads on occasion :)The book "I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906" was a good historical novel. The plot has Leo walking the streets trying to find a place to make money and be safe.
Leo wants to be like his grandfather, his grandfather was clever, resourceful, and strong.