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2021 · 546 — <p>SIGNED First edition later printing. Hard cover. Levine Querido 2021 New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Brand new never read. SIGNED first edition later printing. Personally signed by the author directly to the full title page. Not a tip in. Not a bookplate. Scarce signed! Dust jacket is hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar. </p><p>Winner of the John Newbery Medal Winner of the Pura Belpré Award TIME's Best Books of the Year Wall Street Journal's Best of the Year Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best of the Year Boston Globe's Best of the Year BookPage's Best of the Year Publishers Weekly's Best of the Year School Library Journal's Best of the Year Kirkus Reviews' Best of the Year Bank Street's Best of the Year Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best New York Public Library Best of the Year A Junior Library Guild Selection Cybils Award Finalist 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. "Gripping in its twists and turns and moving in its themes truly a beautiful cuento." New York Times "Clever and compelling wonderfully subversive." The Wall Street Journal ★ "This tale packs a wallop. Exquisite." Kirkus Reviews starred ★ "Gripping euphonious and full of storytelling magic." Publishers Weekly starred ★ "A strong heroic character fighting incredible odds to survive and protect others." School Library Journal starred Había una vez.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</p> Levine Querido hardcover