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Higuera, Donna Barba, author.

The last cuentista / Donna Barba Higuera.

Montclair : Levine Querido, 2021.

320 pages ; 22 cm

2021

Había una vez . . . 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?

10-14 Brodart.

Lexile: 730.

5-9 Brodart.

Science fiction.

Memory -- Juvenile fiction.

Memory -- Fiction.

Memory -- Fiction.

Storytelling -- Juvenile fiction.

Storytelling -- Fiction.

Storytelling -- Fiction.

Interplanetary voyages -- Juvenile fiction.

Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction.

Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction.

JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic.

JUVENILE FICTION / Dystopian.

JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore.

Science fiction.

Science fiction.

Science fiction.

School Library Journal, September 01, 2021

Kirkus Reviews, July 01, 2021

Publishers Weekly, June 14, 2021

BookPage, September 01, 2021

Newbery Award winner, 2022

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