num_pages: 368
description: A sixteen-year-old stowaway discovers her destiny on Noahs ark in this riveting reimagining from award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli available in time for the March 2014 major motion picture Noah.The rain starts suddenly hard and fast. After days of downpour her family lost Sebah takes shelter in a tree eating pine cones and the raw meat of animals that float by. With each passing day her companion a boy named Aban grows weaker. When their tree is struck by lightning Sebah is tempted just to die in the flames rather than succumb to a slow watery death. Instead she and Aban build a raft. What they find on the stormy seas is beyond imagining: a gigantic ark. But Sebah does not know what shell find on board and Aban is too weak to leave their raft. Themes of family loss and ultimately survival and love make for a timeless story. Donna Jo Napoli has imagined a new protagonist to tell the story of Noah and his ark. As rain batters the earth Noah his family and hordes of animals wait out the storm ready to carry out their duty of repopulating the earth. Hidden below deckis Sebah.
language: None
title: Storm
publisher: Simon  Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books