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The Last Cuentista
Last Cuentista (Related to this series)
- Author
- Donna Barba Higuera
- Narrator
- Frankie Corzo
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 12 October 2021
- Run Time
- 8 hours 33 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Winner of the Newbery Medal―a brilliant journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human.
“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 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?
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Details
- Author
- Donna Barba Higuera
- Narrator
- Frankie Corzo
- Duration
- 8 hours 33 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 October 2021
- ISBN
- 9781705044322
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories
Synopsis
Winner of the Newbery Medal―a brilliant journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human.“Gripping in its twists and turns, and moving in its themes ― truly a beautiful cuento.”―New York TimesHabía 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?
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