Authors: Donna Jo Napoli
Tags: #Juvenile Fiction, #Historical, #Other, #Action & Adventure, #General, #Religious, #Christian
Storm (32 page)
I read historical, cultural, and archeological materials about ancient times in the Near East, and materials about animal biology and behavior, and watched videos featuring animals. I also relied on discussions with my daughter Eva Furrow, who is a veterinarian and who worked with bonobos at the London Zoo one summer, and with my friend Helen Plotkin, a biblical scholar, who was kind enough to read an early draft and give feedback.
Normally in my research, I’ll read book after book, article after article. But this story takes place on an ark, and that factor limits what acts can occur. I didn’t need to do profound research on hunting practice, for example, or wedding ceremonies, or other things that could never occur in this setting. Thus, with respect to human history, I felt comfortable after reading only a few comprehensive accounts.
—D. J. N.
Days 1–40: Genesis 7: 11–12
11
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12
And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Days 41–190: Genesis 8: 3–4
3
The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,
4
and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
On day 190 the ark grounds.
Days 191–263: Genesis 8: 5
5
The waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.
On day 263 mountain tops are visible.
Days 264–303: Genesis 8: 6–9
6
After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark
7
and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.
8
Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
9
But the dove could find nowhere to perch because there was water over all the surface of the earth; so it returned to Noah in the ark. He reached out his hand and took the dove and brought it back to himself in the ark.
On day 303 Noah let out the birds for the first time.
Days 304–310: Genesis 8: 10–11
10
He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
11
When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
On day 310 Noah let out the dove the second time.
Days 311–317: Genesis 8: 12
12
We waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him.
On day 317 Noah let the dove out the third time.
Day 313: Genesis 8: 13
13
By the first day of the first month of Noah’s six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.
This is day 313, before Noah lets out the dove the third time.
Day 318–370: Genesis 8: 14–17
14
By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
15
Then God said to Noah,
16
“Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.
17
Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”
Donna Jo Napoli
is the acclaimed and award-winning author of many novels—both fantasies and contemporary stories. In 1997 she won the Golden Kite Award for
Stones in Water
. Her novel
Zel
was named an American Booksellers Association Pick of the Lists, a
Publishers Weekly
Best Book of the Year, a
Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
Blue Ribbon, and a
School Library Journal
Best Book of the Year. A number of her novels have been selected as ALA’s Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults. She is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Napoli, Donna Jo, 1948–
Storm / Donna Jo Napoli.
pages cm
“A Paula Wiseman book.”
Summary: Having lost her family in a massive flood, sixteen-year-old Sebah finds her way onto a gigantic ark, where she must conceal herself from Noah and his family until it is safe for her and another stowaway to slip away.
ISBN 978-1-4814-0302-3 (hardback)
ISBN 978-1-4814-0304-7 (eBook)
[1. Survival—Fiction. 2. Animals—Fiction. 3. Noah’s ark—Fiction. 4. Deluge—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.N15Sto 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2013026808