Winner · Newbery Medal 2022
The Last Cuentista
by Donna Barba Higuera
2021 middle-grade novel by Donna Barba Higuera
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?
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 328
- ISBN
- 9781420515671
- Subjects
- Children's fiction, Newbery medal, nyt:childrens-middle-grade-hardcover=2022-02-13, New York Times bestseller, Juvenile, award:Newbery_award, lexile:730, lexile_range:701-800
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