Dibs: [Lady Tigers] is about a guy named Chris Astacio who got his first job as a PE teacher at one of the most dangerous, poverty-stricken neighborhoods in America, really, in the South Bronx. When he got to the school, it was his first job, and he noticed the girls were going after each other in such a vicious, violent way. He had never seen anything like it. He was so shocked by it. He was like, how can I help the girls? There was no extracurriculars for the girls at the school. They didn't have the money for it. He decided just to start this softball team. The first tryout, four girls showed up. He said, "I don't care who it is. Bring all your friends back so we can have a team." The next day fifteen of the worst girls in school who all hated each other walked through the door. It was because they didn't want to go home and they didn't have anywhere to go. They couldn't go outside in the neighborhood. They just wanted to be in the gym. They didn't care about softball. They just showed up to hang out in the gym. It's about how he turned that group into a team of sisters, really. It's just this crazy year of him finding out all of them have an issue in their personal life. It was about him navigating that. They weren’t doing well in school, most of them. It's really not about softball, the book. It's really about girls coming together and learning how to be a team.