![]() Pura Belpr Honor-winning author Donna Barba Higuera presents us with a brilliant journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human. 2 Her middle grade dystopian novel, The Last Cuentista, won the 2022 Newbery Medal and the Pura Belpr Medal. Her debut novel, Lupe Wong Won't Dance, was a Pura Belpr Award honor book 1 and PNBA winner in 2021. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Donna Barba Higuera is an American children's book author. 'Gripping in its twists and turns, and moving in its themes truly a beautiful cuento.'. ![]() They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard - or purged them altogether. From Pura Belpré Award winner and Newbery Medalist, Donna Barba Higueraa brilliant journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human. 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 Pe a, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita.īut Petra's world is ending. ![]()
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