The Last Cuenista
| Title | The Last Cuenista |
| Year for Search | 2021 |
| Authors | Higuera, Donna Barba |
| Pagination | 336 pp. |
| Date Published | 2021 |
| Publisher | Levine Querido |
| Place Published | Montclair, NJ |
| ISBN Number | 978-1646140893 |
| Keywords | Female author, US author |
| Annotation | Young adult novel set on a generations spaceship after Earth was destroyed in a collision with Halley’s Comet. The protagonist is a twelve-year-old girl whose parents had been chosen to be among those saved and put into “hypersleep” to be cared for by generations of Monitors. The Monitors, though, resent their role, form the dystopian Collective, and wake up everybody while erasing their memories, except, by accident, the protagonist’s. She had always wanted to be a cuenista or storyteller and she fills that role by telling the other children stories of old Earth. The novel won the 2022 Newbery Medal. |
| Info Notes | The novel won the 2022 Newbery Medal. |
| Author Note | Female author |
| Full Text | 2021 Higuera, Donna Barba. The Last Cuenista. Montclair, NJ: Levine Querido. 336 pp. Young adult novel set on a generations spaceship after Earth was destroyed in a collision with Halley’s Comet. The protagonist is a twelve-year-old girl whose parents had been chosen to be among those saved and put into “hypersleep” to be cared for by generations of Monitors. The Monitors, though, resent their role, form the dystopian Collective, and wake up everybody while erasing their memories, except, by accident, the protagonist’s. She had always wanted to be a cuenista or storyteller and she fills that role by telling the other children stories of old Earth. The novel won the 2022 Newbery Medal. Female author. |
