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The Last Cuentista

(2021)
(The Last Storyteller)
(The first book in the Last Cuentista series)
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Awards
2022 Newbery Medal

An unforgettable journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human. The incredible Newbery Medal-winning novel from Donna Barba Higuera.

"Gripping in its twists and turns, and moving in its themes - truly a beautiful cuento."
- NEW YORK TIMES

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 will soon be 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?



Genre: Children's Fiction

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