Help us Launch Ogunquit Author Matt Tavares new book “HOOPS”

HOOPS IS A  WORK OF FICTION INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY, MATT TAVARES’S DEBUT
GRAPHIC NOVEL DRAMATIZES THE HISTORIC STRUGGLE FOR GENDER
EQUALITY IN HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

It is 1975 in Indiana, and the Wilkins Regional High
School girls’ basketball team is in their rookie season.
Despite being undefeated, they practice at night in the
elementary school and play to empty bleachers. Unlike
the boys’ team, the Lady Bears have no buses to deliver
them to away games and no uniforms, much less a
laundry service. They make their own uniforms out of
T-shirts and electrical tape. And with help from a
committed female coach, they push through to
improbable victory after improbable victory. Illustrated
in full color, this story about the ongoing battle of
women striving for equality in sports rings with honesty,
bravery, and heart

MATT TAVARES is the author-illustrator of numerous
acclaimed picture books, including Becoming Babe Ruth,
Growing Up Pedro, and other sports biographies, and is
the illustrator of Twenty-One Steps: Guarding the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier by Jeff Gottesfeld, among many
other titles. Hoops is his first graphic novel and a story
dear to his heart as the father of two sports-loving girls.
Matt Tavares lives in Maine