I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906

I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906, is the fifth book in the "I Survived" series. The Protagonist is an orphan named Leo, The Deuteragonist is Leo's best friend, also an orphan, Morris. The Tritagonist is a former bully named Wilkie, who befriends Leo and Morris in Chapter 9. The Antagonist is a bully named Fletch. Obviously, the book takes place in 1906 during an earthquake in San Francisco. There is a total of 14 Chapters in the book, and there is 88 pages.

Chapter 1, April 18, 1906, 5:12 AM. Some people had just woken up. Shopkeepers were opening their shops, and people are doing their jobs. There was a rumble that Leo didn't know where it came from, but then everything crumples and breaks, and bricks rain onto Leo.

Chapter 2, 20 Hours earlier. Leo tries to get to sell papers about Roosvelt coming to San Francisco, selling newspaper. He looks at a golden nugget, which was what his grandpop found during 1849. Leo loved it. Leo loved stories about his grandpop, facing ferocious animals and getting into trouble. Papa always said Leo was like his grandpop. He misses his Papa. Papa died of a fever a few months ago. Leo was an orphan. Leo finishes selling his papers and looks at his golden nugget. He walks towards an alley and is suddenly smashed against a brick wall and bleeds.

Chapter 3: Fletch Sikes, and his friend, Wilson, demand for Leo to give them his golden nugget. When Fletch was five, he was attacked by star dogs, leaving a bite mark on him, ever since, he wasn't just a bully. He was a thief. Leo begs not, and says he'll give them a dollar, but Fletch says he wants the gold nugget. Leo's best friend, Morris, probably told him about it. He begs, but Fletch wants the gold nugget. Wilkey shoves Leo to the ground and takes the gold nugget, also throwing Leo into a trash can, both laughing as they walk away. Leo's gold nugget was gone.

Chapter 4: Morris finds Leo, who recalls how much Morris acts like they are long lost brothers. Leo tells Morris about his grandpop, just to get him to shut up. Morris says he has been looking everywhere, and where has Leo been. Leo tells Morris about Fletch, and Morris confesses that he did tell people, much to Leo's annoyance. Leo and Morris decide they must work together to get Leo's golden nugget back.

Chapter 5: Leo goes into bed, and thinks about ways to get the nugget back, and tells Morris his plan to trick them. Before Grandpop got his gold nugget, he was held hostage by robbers. He was very close to being killed by a rattlesnake. When a huge bear roared at him and prepared to attack, grandpop remembered the rattlesnake. Grandpop killed the snake. Grandpop saved the snake's rattle, and took it out of his pocket and shook it, scaring the grizzly away. Soon, Leo makes up his plan.

Chapter 6: Leo remembered Corey Drew, a horror story about a rich man who was killed in his mansion. He haunts the street where he lived, which was luckily the street where Fletch and Wilkey lives. Leo decided to make them believe Corey had come to haunt them. He'd dress up and tell them to give him gold. If they were scared enough, they might hand the golden nugget over. Leo set to Rincon Hill at 4:30 AM. He walks through the deserted streets, wondering if the plan will work. He hears strays howl and runs. Leo thinks of his Grandpop. He heard sounds like that. They didn't scare him off, and they wouldn't scare Leo off. Leo finds the bullies house, dresses up, and walks in. He sees Fletch and Wilkie asleep, and screams for them to give him gold.

Chapter 7: Fletch and Wilkie wake up, and Wilkie is afraid, because he knows who Corey Drew is. But Fletch knew the "ghost" was Leo, who sees Morris in the distance. Leo scares Wilkey. Leo's costume falls off, and Fletch punches him and shoves him to the ground, saying the gold is gone. He also punches Morris in the stomach. Wilkie traps Leo, whom Fletch charges to. Leo, who is paralyzed with fear, however, is interrupted by an earthquake! Morris grabs Leo and dashes out of the house.

Chapter 8: Everything rumbles, ground opens, and road crumples. Windows are shattered, and bricks tumble down. Babies cry and dead bodies are shuffled around the streets. Morris says the reason the dogs were howling was because dogs can sense earthquakes. Soon, buildings collapse, and aftershocks happen. Fires were happening, and Morris recommends they should head to the Golden Gate Park. Morris's uncle left him, so Morris had nobody to live with. The duo heads to Golden Gate Park, but see a body covered in bricks and a hand reaching out of it.

Chapter 9: The person under the brick was Wilkie, and there was blood pouring. Leo and Morris drag Wilkey out. He was alive. He was saved by the beams, but he couldn't get them off him. Finally, they get the beam off of him and he gets up. Wilkey asks if Fletch is alive. Leo says he escaped. Wilkey then accuses Fletch of leaving him to die. Wilkey says when he was little he wanted to be a football champion, and there was a school for football stars and a man said he'd teach him but he had to stick to Fletch and after years, he went to jail to be with him and got buried in a pile of bricks left to die by him. Morris asks if they can be friends, and Wilkey accepts. Wilkey says he knows where the gold nugget is, and Fletch still has it.

Chapter 10: The kids go to Market Street, where everything is damaged, and Leo tries not to look at the fires and burned buildings. He finds out the Firemen don't have water. They spot Fletch, and, oddly, Morris comes running towards him. Leo and Wilkey are about to head into the alley, but fire burns through it, and everyone is surrounded by the fire.

Chapter 11: Knowing that Morris will die if they don't save him, Leo remembers of his grandpop being surrounded by fire. he put his coat on himself and ran through the fire and survived. Leo then puts his coat and is about to run through the fire before Wilkie gets in the coat. They both run straight into the fire.

Chapter 12: Running through the fire and patting out the flames, they both make it out, but glass shatters and try to stop Leo and Wilkie. Through the people screaming, they see Morris's head in a hole. They pull him out, and though it was very hard, they get him out. They both go to where Morris thinks Fletch is, as he jumped into a window, which explains the glass shattering, and though Morris's calls for help, Fletch had left him and wouldn't help. thankfully, Leo and Wilkey saved him. They go into a window and find Fletch, blood all over him due to the glass shattering. They be very careful, because after an aftershock, the house might collapse.

Chapter 13: Fletch suddenly says nice things to Wilkey, just so he won't hurt him. Sarcastically, Wilkie says they can be all friends, and oddly, Fletch says they can be friends with Leo and Morris. Fletch gives the Golden Nugget back to Leo. Wilkie gets angry and accuses Fletch for leaving him to die, but Morris stops him from attacking. Wilkie throws Fletch on the sidewalk, now leaving him to die. Nobody looks back at Fletch. They walk a few blocks before they see a woman, crying because she lost everything, and only her children are left. Leo gives her a sack of flour that Fletch and Wilkey put all their stolen items in. She smiles at him. Leo, Morris, and Wilkey again walk through San Francisco, facing the destruction. Leo had lost everything. But he still had his Golden Nugget. And he wasn't alone.

Chapter 14. April 21, 1906. Sacramento, California. Leo stands on the platform with Morris. Everybody who lived around the destruction go to live in somewhere else, or just go to escape. Everybody looked injured, but Leo and Morris had escaped. They had two tickets to get onto a train leading to Morris's other uncle. They got a free ticket for the train, and Leo sold his gold nugget for another train ticket. They knew the city would be rebuilt. Leo also bought a ticket to go to Seattle where he can become a football star. When Morris asks, Leo says he's not sad that he lost his nugget. He was too thinking about trying to be like grandpop that he forgot his own courage, and Leo knows something good was going to happen.

Trivia:

This book is known for being somewhat off topic about it's title for the first 7 chapters.