In conjunction with the publication of Pills and Starships by Lydia Millet—the latest release from our Black Sheep imprint for Young Adults and Young Readers—we’ve created the Black Sheep Digit, comprising excerpts from Pills and Starships and our first two Black Sheep releases, Changers Book One: Drew by T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper and Game World by C. J. Farley.
For young Adam Jones, inheriting the family business is more than a rotten hand. It’s downright skeletal.
The masterful and dramatic final installment in the highly acclaimed Changers YA series pulls no punches.
The cheerleader, the nerd, the jock, the freak. What if you had to be all four?
In Book Three of this acclaimed YA series, Oryon Small transforms into Kim, an Asian American girl who must learn to separate body image from self-worth.
In Book Two of the Changers Series, our protagonist undergoes a second transformation—returning to a male body.
For a limited time, get the first three books from the Changers series (Changers Book One: Drew), Changers Book Two: Oryon, Changers Book Three: Kim) for only $15!
Launching Akashic’s new Black Sheep YA imprint, an adventure novel in a video game turned reality, with giant spiders, malevolent hummingbirds, a not-quite-yellow-brick road, and preteen children learning how to be heroes!
Fifteen-year-old Quinn faces an impossible decision in this quest of sisterhood and self-sacrifice.
Millet’s first YA novel explores a world devastated by global warming, and two teenagers determined to survive against all odds.
In Scofield’s powerful debut, teenager Lily Asher takes her first steps toward a strange, loving journey to self-acceptance and belonging.
During the summer of the drought, a boy must decide if his neighbor’s ark is lunacy or a lifeline.
Forthcoming: 4/1/19
Race, class, and hormones combine and combust when a Harvard freshman and his two friends attempt to join the staff of the Harpoon, the school’s iconic humor magazine.
Forthcoming: 9/3/19
When Naomi, a fourteen-year-old white girl, is placed with a black foster care family, her life takes some dramatic twists and turns.
