It was named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Wall Street Journal, and TIME. She watches people clean already spotless surfaces, noting there is no creativity. Her second novel, The Last Cuentista, received the John Newbery Medal and the Pura Belpr Award. Summary In Chapter 17, Petra wakes to discover Feathers and Rubio already dressed and standing at attention, and she rushes to catch up. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Donna's first book, Lupe Wong Won't Dance, won a Sid Fleischman Award for Humor and a Pura Belpr Honor. 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 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.
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. Once upon a time an almost thirteen-year-old girl named Petra Pea, wished to become a storyteller like her abuelita. “A strong, heroic character, fighting incredible odds to survive and protect others.”-School Library Journal (starred) The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera is a juvenile fiction book for 4-8th graders that has won the 2022 John Newbery Medal and the Pura Belpr Awards. “Gripping, euphonious, and full of storytelling magic.”-Publishers Weekly (starred) wonderfully subversive.”-The Wall Street Journal “Gripping in its twists and turns, and moving in its themes – truly a beautiful cuento.”-New York Times
From Pura Belpré Honor-winner Donna Barba Higuera-a brilliant journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human.
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