The last cuentista /
Donna Barba Higuera.
- Montclair [Cailfornia] : Levine Querido, 2021.
- 320 p. ; 22 cm.
School Library Journal starred, September 2021 Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), January 2022 Pub Weekly, June 2021 Kirkus Starred, July 2021 Horn Book, September 2021
"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? "--Jacket flap.