The Last Cuentista

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?

Pura Belpré Honor-winning author Donna Barba Higuera presents us with a brilliant journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Levine Querido
Published: 10/12/2021
ISBN: 9781646140893
Pages: 336

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/14/2021
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2021
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2021 pg. 95
School Library Journal 09/01/2021 pg. 86