
All the Noise at Once
Atheneum Books for Young Readers · Hardcover · April 15, 2025
Winner of the William C. Morris Debut YA Book Award Three starred reviews!
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- Genres
- Football, YA Neurodiversity, Activism & Social Justice
- Published
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers, April 15, 2025
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Winner of the William C. Morris Debut YA Book Award Three starred reviews! A Black, autistic teen tries to figure out what happened the night his older brother was unjustly arrested in this “propulsive” (Jas Hammonds, award-winning author of We Deserve Monuments), moving story about brotherhood, identity, and social justice. All Aiden has ever wanted to do was play football just like his star quarterback brother, Brandon.
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An overstimulation meltdown gets in the way of Aiden making the team during summer tryouts, but when the school year starts and a spot unexpectedly needs to be filled, he finally gets a chance to play the game he loves. However, not every player is happy about the new addition to the team, wary of how Aiden’s autism will present itself on game day. Tensions rise. A fight breaks out. Cops are called. Brandon interferes on behalf of his brother, but is arrested by the very same cops who, just hours earlier, were chanting his name from the bleachers. When he’s wrongly charged for felony assault on an officer, everything Brandon has worked for starts to slip away, and the brothers’ relationship is tested. As Brandon’s trial inches closer, Aiden is desperate to figure out what really happened that night. Can he clear his brother’s name in time?
Why This Clicks
Come here for
- identity, pressure, and social noise
- serious YA with a public-facing edge
Expect
- prestige-leaning tone
- sustained narrative momentum
Where it sits
| Football | 45% |
|---|---|
| YA Neurodiversity | 43% |
| Activism & Social Justice | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- African American YA
- Football
- YA Neurodiversity
- Authors
- DeAndra Davis
- Publisher
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Published
- April 15, 2025
- Format
- Hardcover
- Reading lane
- African American YA