The Last Cuentista takes place in 2060 when Earth is going to be destroyed and three ships of scientists are the only humans who will leave to go settle a new world. The main character, Petra Peña, and her family are some of the people who are leaving. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes up to find that The Collective, a sinister group who believe only in sameness had taken over the ship she was on. The Collective had managed to get rid of everyone's memories -- everyone's but Petra's. Now Petra is the only one who knows anything about humanities' past, the last one who knows their stories. The Last Cuentista is probably my favorite sci-fi book and I would recommend it to anyone who thinks it looks interesting.- Kyra, ninth-grade volunteer
Publisher's description: There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who 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 only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past . . . [by] systematically purg[ing] the memories of all on board - or purg[ing] them altogether. Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?