I really liked the characters in this book and wanted them to win in the battle with saving the theater but I wasn't sure it was really possible. I think many teens can relate to this book, as struggling to find your path in life. Our main character Ethan was experiencing loss and also the rekindling of an old friendship, that he really wanted to be more.
A very relate-able teen book, with a great setting.

Movie books are tough, but this one gets it right. Chapter headings start with cinematic terms that help to navigate into the heart of the matter. The Green Street Theater, a movie house that shows classic films on a projector (how cool is that??) is in danger of being shut down. And it is in disrepair. But the seventeen-year-old managing the place, affectionately called Wendy but really named Ethan, is willing to fight for the place he loves. He's known loss; his film professor father and best friend/love of his life are both absent from his life and he's on his own. But movies are magic - and Bognanni waxes poetic on their power to captivate, to elevate emotion, and teach us lessons that somehow pass us by without panning cameras, scenes that fade to black, and those memorable lines we repeat when we can't find our own voice. Appropriate for middle school. So much better for movie lovers than From Twinkle With Love.

A coming of age story with lots of great movie references for the cinephiles. A group of kids get together to save a movie theater that is in danger of being torn down.

I was provided a copy of this book by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Loved this YA book! I love a good eclectic group gets together to try to save something book. But this book was so much more than that. I really enjoyed it.

Ethan has a passion for movies and a nostalgic love of the theater where he works as default manager makes the Green Street Theater a perfect home for him. Now the university that owns the decrepit theater has plans to shut it down.
This book is for anyone who loves movies. Readers who are not on a direct path to college after high school will appreciate Ethan’s story. He is a lovable seventeen year old dealing with aimlessness and the death of his father, and loving the unattainable girl. This plot sounds familiar and overdone, but this book is written so well as to make the tried and true story line well worth following to an unusual but satisfying conclusion.

This book was received as an ARC from PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Young Readers Group - Dial Books in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

I was super excited to read this book from the description especially since fans of John Green will appreciate this book, so this book will definitely fit for all nerd-fighters everywhere. I must say this book delivered on that. We have a movie geek that wishes life was like the movies, a supporting cast (his friends) and a heroine (his old friend/potential girlfriend). He feels that everything is going well but when his friend returns from Hollywood and has uncovered many secrets in the industry, the boy has lost his magic. After the realization that life is not always like the movies and things will work out if they are supposed to. I absolutely loved this book and was hooked from the first page. I know young readers and nerd-fighters will unite and love this book too.

We will consider adding this title to our YFiction collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.

Yes, I really read this book in one day. Once I started reading it, I neglected everything else in my life. Well, okay, I did take time out to go to the gym and the grocery store, and watch a movie, but I was thinking about this book the whole time I wasn't reading it! If that's not an endorsement, then I don't know what is.

P.S. Sweet Lou is the best octogenarian you will ever encounter in a YA novel. That is all.