The Last Cuentista

About this book

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?

Subjects

• age:max:undefined
• age:min:10
• award:newbery_award
• children's fiction
• grade:max:9
• grade:min:5
• juvenile
• lexile:730
• lexile_range:701-800
• newbery medal
• new york times bestseller
• nyt:childrens-middle-grade-hardcover=2022-02-13
• nyt:middle-grade-paperback-monthly=2024-05-12