The Last Cuentista La Ultima Cuentista

The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

Text from the back cover:

Habia una vez...There lived a girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller.  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 systematically purged the memories of all aboard -- or purged them altogether.  Petra alone now carries the stories or our past, and with them, any hope for our future.  Can she make them live again?

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Ms. Sharp's quick review:  Great story!  It made me realize how important my past is to me.