Few Blue Skies, Carolina Ixta
Few Blue Skies, Carolina Ixta
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Few Blue Skies

Author: Carolina Ixta

Narrator: Karla Serrato

Unabridged: 9 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/03/2026

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

In her latest novel, Pura Belpré Award–winning author Carolina Ixta weaves a tender story about love and hope, following a teen as she works to protect her family and community from a major corporation taking over her town.Paloma Vistamontes is heartbroken. A year ago, her ex-boyfriend, Julio Ramos, broke up with her after his father’s death, a tragedy that drove Paloma and him apart. Ever since then, the mountains have felt flatter, the sky farther away.Now, her hometown of San Fermín, a place where honest people work on farms and in factories, is in danger. Selva, a massive e-commerce conglomerate, threatens to open one of their warehouses beside her high school.This isn’t the first time they’ve done this. Since Selva arrived, they’ve opened warehouses everywhere where there used to be green spaces. Because of them, the air pollution is so bad that school is often canceled. Many people, including Paloma’s ever-practical Ma, want to leave.But Paloma wants nothing more than to stay. Because when the smog clears, there is still hope. That hope drives Paloma to reconnect with Julio to expose and challenge the dangers that Selva introduces to communities like their own. Can they stop Selva from destroying everything they know? Is there still a chance for their budding romance?Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Carolina Ixta

Carolina Ixta is a writer from Oakland, California. A daughter of Mexican immigrants, she received her BA in creative writing and Spanish language and literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and obtained her master's degree in education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her debut novel, Shut Up, This Is Serious, was a Morris Award finalist, an LA Times Book Prize finalist, and the winner of the Pura Belpré Award. Few Blue Skies is her sophomore novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Katherine on January 27, 2026

I loved Shut Up, This Is Serious and so I picked this one up. It is about a young woman, Paloma, who lives in Southern California's Inland Empire, where farms are being replaced by warehouses. Her father works for the company (a thin stand in for A*az*n), and the whole town is impacted by poor air q......more

Goodreads review by Richie on December 12, 2025

Richie’s Picks: FEW BLUE SKIES by Carolina Ixta, HarperCollins/Quill Tree, February 2026, 384p., ISBN: 978-0-06-328791-4 “Just go out for a breath of air And you’ll be ready for Medicare The city streets are really quite a thrill If the hoods don’t get you, the monoxide will.” – Tom Lehrer, “Pollution” (......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on December 09, 2025

Title: Few Blue Skies Author: Carolina Ixta Publisher: Harper Audio Children/Quill Tree Books Format: 🎧 Narrator: Karla Serrato Genre: YA/Teen Audiobook Pub Date: February 3, 2026 My Rating: 4.4 Stars Pages; 384 Paloma Vistamontes lives in an area in Southern California know as the Inland Empire. The people......more

Goodreads review by Erica on August 09, 2025

Having read and loved Ixta's Shut Up, This Is Serious, I had high hopes for Few Blue Skies. For the most part I feel that those were met. Slightly more speculative in setting than her debut, Carolina Ixta's newest novel is just as heartfelt, true, and important. Her teenage protagonist is dealing wi......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on December 05, 2025

Reviewed for IndieNext: Cli-fi meets romance in this stunning story of the power in staying and fighting for what you love, even when it might be so much easier to leave it all behind. Caroline Ixta's FEW BLUE SKIES follows Paloma, high school journalist, and Julio, budding scientist, as they team up......more

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