The Last Cuentista, Donna Barba Higuera
The Last Cuentista, Donna Barba Higuera
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The Last Cuentista

Author: Donna Barba Higuera

Narrator: Frankie Corzo

Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/12/2021


Synopsis

Winner of the John Newbery Medal
Winner of the Pura Belpré Award
A Junior Library Guild Selection

Había una vez …

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.

* "Gripping, euphonious, and full of storytelling magic."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

About Donna Barba Higuera

Donna Barba Higuera grew up dodging dust devils in the oilfields of Central California. She has spent her entire life blending folklore with her experiences into stories that fill her imagination. Now she weaves them to write picture books and novels. She currently resides with her husband, four children, three dogs, and two frogs in the mists of the Pacific Northwest. For more information, visit dbhiguera.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David on March 12, 2021

This beautiful book is going to blow people's minds. It MATTERS.......more

Goodreads review by Aimee on February 18, 2022

The Last Cuentista is S T U N N I N G, both as a physical book and as a story. Petra Peña is a young girl who embarks on a journey as humanity’s last hope when Halley’s comet officially heads on a collision course with earth. Petra and her family of highly trained scientists are put in status for th......more

Goodreads review by Bella on June 28, 2022

actual rating: 2.75 stars......more

Goodreads review by Mara on February 27, 2023

This absolutely destroyed me in the best possible way......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on January 19, 2023

Q: “I can’t believe we’re leaving you.” ... “It’s impossible for you to leave me. I’m part of you. You’re taking me and my stories to a new planet and hundreds of years into the future. How lucky I am.” (c) Q: I don’t want to imagine them being so afraid they’d try to hide from something they can’t hide......more