![]() Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. ![]() They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard - or purged them altogether. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. ![]() 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. The Last Storyteller was the winner of the 2022 Newberry Medal and features a young female protagonist, Petra Pea. There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita.īut Petra's world is ending. "Gripping in its twists and turns, and moving in its themes - truly a beautiful cuento." ![]() Future When Sir Thomas More published a book in 1516 about a place so impossibly perfect as to be incapable of actually existing anywhere he instantly coined the term utopia with the title of his tome. The incredible Newbery Medal-winning novel from Donna Barba Higuera. Translated into English, the title becomes The Last Storyteller and refers specifically to the storytelling of its Latina heroine. An unforgettable journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human. ![]()
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