![]() ![]() With their bodies placed in stasis, her brain is to be uploaded with botanical knowledge while she sleeps. Petra and her family are some of the ones chosen ones to board the three Pleiades vessels that will take them across the galaxy to a new planet, a new home. In The Last Storyteller, a comet is heading for Earth and an exodus of the chosen few has begun. 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. There lived a girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. "Gripping in its twists and turns, and moving in its themes - truly a beautiful cuento."- NEW YORK TIMES The incredible Newbery Medal-winning novel from Donna Barba Higuera. ![]() An unforgettable journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human. ![]()
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