How lucky I am.” Although impossibly sad to leave Earth, and especially her grandmother, Petra is buoyed by the hope that the memories of humanity on Earth can continue on through sharing the stories her grandmother has shared with her. You’re taking me and my stories to a new planet and hundreds of years into the future. Her grandmother answers: “It’s impossible for you to leave me. “I can’t believe we’re leaving you,” Petra tells her grandmother the day they depart. Petra learned how to be a cuentista from her grandmother, who did not qualify for passage on the ship. When Halley’s Comet goes on a collision course for Earth in the year 2061, Petra Peña, a 13-year-old storyteller - a cuentista - along with her younger brother and parents (scientists who specialize in botany), and other specialized citizens, board a spaceship to escape the disaster. The Last Cuentista is about the power of stories in our lives. The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
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