Black Sheep imprint: 13 books

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The highly anticpated, debut book from hip-hop artist Brandon Caskey, "FEAR DOES NOT BELONG HERE" is an uncut glimpse into the artist's mind without the confines of beats or musical structure. A collection of hauntingly beautiful poems, "FEAR DOES NOT BELONG HERE" reveals the hopes,...

QUESTION FOR CBSD: at pre-sales, can we discuss the price of this? Akashic continues its BLACK SHEEP YA imprint with this very strong and moving debut novel. CBSD is submitting the novel to the ABA New Voices Committee. Akashic will submit to B&N Discover Program. The...

Akashic launched our BLACK SHEEP YA imprint with the first book in this series, Changers Book One: Drew. The first book has been selling well for us -- we're almost through our first printing, and we have licensed it into translation into German, Spanish, and Norwegian so far. Changers Book...

Akashic launches this BLACK SHEEP YA imprint with this title and a second YA title by Christopher John Farley. This will be the first in a series of YA novels all starring the same protagonist. Both authors (they are parents of young teenage children) will be very active in book promotion. Publicize...

Akashic launched our BLACK SHEEP YA imprint with the first book in this series, Changers Book One: Drew. The first two installments continue selling well for us -- we're now in our third printing of Book One, and we have licensed the series into translation into German, Spanish, Norwegian, and to...

Akashic launched our BLACK SHEEP YA imprint with the first book in this series, Changers Book One: Drew. We have licensed the series into translation into German, Spanish, Norwegian, and to Little Brown in the UK. TV producer Meryl Poster optioned the entire 4-book series for TV. The...

"Irresistible...playfully existential." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Bear's search for himself doesn't matter so much as the charm of Lavie's storytelling voice as he narrates it...Erlbruch gives the bear big, puzzled-looking eyes and a lovable grin. He lives in a forest made of...

Winner of the Writers' League of Texas's Discovery Prize for Middle Grade/Young Adult! "The Powerses' worldbuilding and writing will keep [readers] hooked. They will find themselves questioning what is fact and what is fiction and cheering Adam on as he journeys in this new, strange world....

A teenage girl and her brother fight for their family’s future in a world devastated by climate change: “Thrillingly scary . . . There is much here to enjoy” (The Washington Post). In a dystopian future brought about by global warming, seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother, Sam,...

One of The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2015 "A punk primer for the youngest set....Yi's incredibly detailed clay figures are a kinetic and inspired art choice. Their crazy creativity matches the expressive spirit of punk....As [Morse] points out, the best way to learn about punk it...

Included in Publishers Weekly's Big Indie Books of Fall 2017 feature "Morse and Yi (the team behind What Is Punk?) highlight hip-hop's cultural hegemony via an impressively encyclopedic parade of rhyming biographies. Yi's meticulously styled clay figures are as magical as in the previous...

"A smart, satirical novel about surviving the racial and cultural tensions ratcheted up in the elite Harvard hothouse. Farley has created a marvelously engaging and diverse set of characters, at the center of which is a nerdy Jamaican American with a philosophical bent and his cohort of oddballs...