# Hoops

**Author:** Matt Tavares
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–11
**First published:** 2023
**Genre:** Middle Grade Graphic Novel
**ISBN-13:** `9781536201369`
**ISBN-10:** `1536201367`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/hoops-tavares
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

A graphic novel inspired by true events, dramatizing the 1975 fight for gender equality as an Indiana high-school girls' basketball team battles for the right to compete. Matt Tavares's grades 3-5 graphic novel is a 2025-2026 Virginia Readers' Choice (Elementary) nominee.

## Themes

- courage
- perseverance
- history

## Where this book is assigned

### Georgia Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Georgia — [source: Georgia Children's Book Award 2025 Nominees (Grades 4-8) — University of Georgia Libraries](https://guides.libs.uga.edu/c.php?g=868748&p=10220606)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Georgia — [source: Georgia Children's Book Award 2025 Nominees (Grades 4-8) — University of Georgia Libraries](https://guides.libs.uga.edu/c.php?g=868748&p=10220606)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Georgia — [source: Georgia Children's Book Award 2025 Nominees (Grades 4-8) — University of Georgia Libraries](https://guides.libs.uga.edu/c.php?g=868748&p=10220606)

### Virginia Readers' Choice

- **recommended** · 3rd grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)
- **recommended** · 4th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Virginia — [source: Virginia Readers' Choice 2025-2026 Award Nominee Lists (Elementary + Middle School)](https://www.doe.virginia.gov/teaching-learning-assessment/instruction/english-reading-literacy/virginia-readers-choice)

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