Lauren Tarshis

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.

• 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)

• OCLC 70707706
• 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. 
• OCLC 270230868

• The making of Ironweed (1988)