From Pura Belpré Award winner and Newbery Medalist, Donna Barba Higuera—a brilliant journey through the stars, to the very heart of what makes us human.
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. 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?
在没有故事的“美丽新世界”,一个女孩点亮了希望的灯。
2061年,彗星来袭,地球末日即将到来,一艘星际飞船载着被选中的科学家和孩子们秘密起飞。在长达380年的星际飞行之后,13岁的女孩彼得拉从休眠中醒来,却发现自己成了后一个保有地球记忆的人。一个名为集团的组织占领了飞船,并清洗了人们关于地球与过去的所有记忆。
带着人类后的记忆和故事,彼得拉勇敢而顽强地生存了下来。她将用故事的力量唤醒同伴冰封的心灵,也将用阅读的魔法,找回已然年迈老去的弟弟……循着那些神话故事、民间传说的指引,她将和她的同伴们一起,踏上那颗空气中有豌豆花香味儿的萨根星球,并在那里,找到先行者的足迹……
By Donna Barba Higuera,Paperback, Simplified or Traditional Chinese Character, 336 pages, 5.95“