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Clever and compelling…wonderfully subversive."
Wall Street Journal
A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year
A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2021
A Boston Globe Book of the Year
A Minneapolis Star-Tribune Pick of 2021
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best
A New York Public Library Staff Pick of the Year
A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year
A School Library Journal Best Book of 2021
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2021
A BookPage Best Book of the Year
Había una vez …
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. 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 remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard-or purged 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?
Pura Belpré Honor-winning author Donna Barba Higuera presents us with a brilliant journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human.
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