Saigo No Kataribe / Original Title: the LAST CUENTISTA

[Machine Translation] Petra, a young girl, boards an interstellar colony ship with her family for a new destination. They were supposed to arrive at their destination while she was asleep, but when she woke up 380 years later, a revolution had occurred on board and all the passengers except Petra had their memories of Earth erased. Petra, the only one with memories of Earth, uses the old stories told to her by her grandmother back home, as well as the vast number of stories created throughout human history, to fight the adults who are trying to carry out their horrific plan. Winner of the Newbery and Pura Belpre Awards. A masterpiece about a young girl who tries to change the world through the power of stories.

新天地を目指して家族とともに恒星間植民船に乗り込んだ少女ペトラ。眠っているあいだに目的地に到着するはずだったが、380年後に目覚めてみると船内で革命がおき、ペトラ以外の乗客は地球の記憶をすべて消去されてしまっていた。ただひとり、地球の記憶を持っているペトラは、故郷のおばあちゃんが語ってくれた昔話、そして人類の歴史の中で生み出されてきた膨大な物語を武器に、恐ろしい計画を実行しようとする大人たちに戦いを挑む。ニューベリー賞、プーラ・ベルプレ賞を受賞。物語の力で世界を変えようとする少女の姿を描く傑作。