Higuera, Donna Barba,

The Last Cuentista / Donna Barba Higuera. - 320 pages ; 23 cm.

"This is an Arthur A. Levine book"--Title page verso.

"A girl named Petra Pena, 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? " --

Newbery Medal, 2022.

ISBN: 9781646140893 1646140893

LCCN: 2021932056

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Storytellers
Girls
Memory
Life on other planets
Mexican Americans

LC Class. No.: PZ7.1.H5468 / Las 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6