At our next book discussion for the Hoboke n Public Library's Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Discussion Group\, we will be discussing The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera.
\nPetr a Pena 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 onl y a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her f amily - 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 re members Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its jo urney\, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematica lly purged the memories of all aboard - or purged them altogether. Petra a lone now carries the stories of our past\, and with them\, any hope for ou r future. \;
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