Book · 2025 · Young Adult Fiction
One of the Boys
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The The other one is One of the Boys. This is forthcoming. Uh is going to release May 13, 2025, uh by Victoria Zeller, and it's about a trans girl who's like the kicker on her football team, and she has to like leave the team because she transitions, but then the team needs her back cuz they don't have.
The best things said about it
But yeah, uh, in terms of like how I would like very quickly pitch one of the boys, high school senior named Grace comes back to her high school football team. She quit over the summer because she came out as trans.
Why people recommend it
One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller is a contemporary young adult sports novel that follows Grace, a high school senior and trans girl who returns to her school's football team after quitting over the summer when she came out. The book received enthusiastic coverage on Behind the Bastards. Mia Wong recommended the forthcoming novel, praising its premise and declaring that it completely succeeds as fiction written by a poster. Victoria Zeller joined the podcast to discuss the challenges of writing young adult sports fiction, explaining her goal to translate a traditional high-school sports narrative through the lens of an outsider. Zeller also emphasized that teen readers appreciate authentic sports storylines and that adults should embrace these narratives without judgment. Mia Wong further contextualized the novel by comparing it structurally to other recent works about trans women in sports, noting how it functions as a fascinating inversion of existing tropes. Commentators celebrated the book for bringing fresh perspectives to traditional sports genres, blending technical football details with heartfelt coming-of-age themes for young adult audiences.
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Mia Wong The The other one is One of the Boys. This is forthcoming. Uh is going to release May 13, 2025, uh by Victo… 3
“But the actual and more important question it asks is, "What if a poster could write fiction?" And the answer is that it [ __ ] rips. Thank you. Um, this this book rules it.”
“So, one of the boys is weirdly the second football involved book about a trans woman that I've read in the last year. And I think it's fascinating because in in the like pure archetypal sense from like anthrop like structuralist anthropology, it is like a pure structural inversion of Allison Greavves's How to Fly.”
“The The other one is One of the Boys. This is forthcoming. Uh is going to release May 13, 2025, uh by Victoria Zeller, and it's about a trans girl who's like the kicker on her football team, and she has to like leave the team because she transitions, but then the team needs her back cuz they don't have”
Victoria Zeller But yeah, uh, in terms of like how I would like very quickly pitch one of the boys, high school senior name… 2
“But yeah, uh, in terms of like how I would like very quickly pitch one of the boys, high school senior named Grace comes back to her high school football team. She quit over the summer because she came out as trans”
“Uh that was uh it is it is hard writing fiction about sports if you're writing young adult fiction, you know, which is what one of the boys is. Don't be weird about that if you're an adult. Teenage girls are like, you don't have to hate the things that they like.”
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“So Victoria, do you have anything else that you want to say before we head out? And where should people buy your book from? Not Amazon. That's like really all I have to say about that. Um, yeah, one of the boys, my name is Victoria Zeller”