Around Harvard Square
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.
Catalog Tag: young adult
Black Sheep Digit
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.
Broken Circle
For young Adam Jones, inheriting the family business is more than a rotten hand. It’s downright skeletal.
The Brothers’ Lot
A hilarious and satirical debut novel exploring religious hypocrisy in an Irish secondary school.
Cane Warriors
Moa, a fourteen-year-old slave, gets caught up in the most significant slave rebellion in Jamaican history, paying homage to freedom fighters all over the world.
Changers Book One: Drew
The cheerleader, the nerd, the jock, the freak. What if you had to be all four?
Changers Book Three: Kim
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.
Fighting in the Shade
A riveting novel of ideas exploring the perils of hazing and feverish masculinity on a high school football team.
Game World
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!
Hairstyles of the Damned
The debut novel from Akashic’s new imprint, Punk Planet Books. Also check out the smash hits How the Hula Girl Sings, Tender as Hellfire, and The Boy Detective Fails.
Home Girl
When Naomi, a fourteen-year-old white girl, is placed with a black foster care family, her life takes some dramatic twists and turns.
The Kaleidoscope Sisters
Fifteen-year-old Quinn faces an impossible decision in this quest of sisterhood and self-sacrifice.
Kemosha of the Caribbean
In 1668, a young Jamaican girl, Kemosha, secures her freedom from enslavement and finds her true self while sailing to Panama with the legendary Captain Morgan.
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Pills and Starships
Millet’s first YA novel explores a world devastated by global warming, and two teenagers determined to survive against all odds.
They Better Call Me Sugar: My Journey from the Hood to the Hardwood
In unflinchingly honest prose, Sugar Rodgers shares her inspiring story of overcoming tremendous odds to become an all-star in the WNBA.
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The Underdog Parade
During the summer of the drought, a boy must decide if his neighbor’s ark is lunacy or a lifeline.
Wingshooters
Revoyr’s novel examines the effects of change on a small, isolated town, the strengths and limits of community, and the sometimes conflicting loyalties of family and justice.
Zero O’Clock
For sixteen-year-old Geth Montego, zero o’clock begins on March 11, 2020. By June, she wonders if it will ever end.
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