STORM

STORM is a survival adventure of intense drama, set during the greatest flood in history. Alone in the rapidly rising waters and desperate to survive, a teenage girl named Sebah takes refuge among the animals in the massive wooden boat known as Noah's ark.

The first raindrops fall. But there's not just a drop or two of rain, which would be unusual enough in sixteen-year-old Sebah's desert home. This is a powerful rainfall, then a deluge. Then the waters rise and the sea roils. And still the rain does not stop. Cut off from her family, with a tiny bobcat kit clinging to her for life, Sebah tries to survive the flood. It means becoming almost an animal herself-she will eat anything to feed herself and her kit. She longs for a companion, but the companion who happens upon her, a 17-year-old boy named Aban, is not who she wants to be with. What if he harms her? What if he kills her? Still, Sebah and Aban must aid and protect each other if they are to survive. Waterlogged and starving, they are on the brink of giving up when looming before them is the largest floating vessel they could ever picture or imagine. If they can scramble aboard, maybe they get dry and get food and live. And soon, with the aid of an extraordinary pair of helpers, Sebah is a stowaway on Noah's ark. Told with Donna Jo Napoli's characteristic urgency and immediacy, this is an authentic, raw, thoroughly-researched, action-paced story with crossover appeal to teens and adults. Donna Jo Napoli is the distinguished author of some twenty novels for young adults. Her historical fiction titles include the award-winning Stones in the Water, Hush, and The Smile, and her fairy-tale retellings, for which she is perhaps best known, include Zel, Bound, and The Magic Circle. Donna Jo is also the author of Song of the Magdalene, based on the Biblical charater Mary Magdalene. ("Knowledge of ancient Hebrew culture, an ability to express the feelings and anguish of an intense young woman, and skillful weaving of plot and character create a gripping novel that is hard to put down."-School Library Journal.) When she is not writing, Donna Jo is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College, where she is currently conducting research into storytelling through sign language. Donna Jo earned both her undergraduate degree in mathematics and her graduate degree in linguistics from Harvard University. She lives with her family in Pennsylvania.