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Firesnake
Last Cuentista (Related to this series)
- Author
- Donna Barba Higuera
- Narrator
- Frankie Corzo
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 9 June 2026
- Run Time
- 9 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
From New York Times bestselling author Donna Barba Higuera, Firesnake delivers a triumphant finale to the story that began with the Newbery Medal–winning The Last Cuentista and continued in the Pura Belpré Honor–winning Alebrijes.
Itzel has never known a life on Earth. Growing up on Sagan, the granddaughter of the Cuentista, her years have been spent among the dactyls, griblets, and billow seeds of their new planet. But when a mysterious message arrives from across the cosmos, Itzel realizes that the home they thought destroyed hundreds of years ago has survived … and with it, another community of humans. Will she and the other Saganites brave the journey back to Earth? And what will they find? For they are not the only ones who have received this message …
Master storyteller Donna Barba Higuera brings her beloved Cuentista trilogy to a close in a book full of old friends and new, jaw-dropping twists, and a journey to the stars and back.
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Details
- Author
- Donna Barba Higuera
- Narrator
- Frankie Corzo
- Duration
- 9 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 June 2026
- ISBN
- 9798898851255
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories
Synopsis
From New York Times bestselling author Donna Barba Higuera, Firesnake delivers a triumphant finale to the story that began with the Newbery Medal–winning The Last Cuentista and continued in the Pura Belpré Honor–winning Alebrijes. Itzel has never known a life on Earth. Growing up on Sagan, the granddaughter of the Cuentista, her years have been spent among the dactyls, griblets, and billow seeds of their new planet. But when a mysterious message arrives from across the cosmos, Itzel realizes that the home they thought destroyed hundreds of years ago has survived … and with it, another community of humans. Will she and the other Saganites brave the journey back to Earth? And what will they find? For they are not the only ones who have received this message … Master storyteller Donna Barba Higuera brings her beloved Cuentista trilogy to a close in a book full of old friends and new, jaw-dropping twists, and a journey to the stars and back.
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