The last cuentista

Title
The last cuentista

Personal Author EPSB
Donna Barba, Higuera

Summary
There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard - or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?

Year Published
2021

Physical Description
320 pages ; 22 cm

Awards
2022 ALA Newbery Medal winner

Subject
Storytellers -- Fiction.
 
Girls -- Fiction.
 
Memory -- Fiction.
 
Life on other planets -- Fiction.
 
Mexican Americans -- Fiction.

Genre
Science fiction.
 
Apocalyptic fiction.

Summary
There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard - or purged them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?

ISBN
9781646140893

Publisher
Montclair, New Jersey : Levine Querido, 2021.
 
©2021


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