Sidewalk’s Teen Book + Film Club is a fun activity for your middle or high schooler this summer! Based on our monthly Book + Film Clubs, this summer program is an opportunity for teens to make new friends, watch fun films and engage their reading & critical thinking skills through the summer. Register by the deadline to have your books mailed to you. If you sign up after the deadline, don’t sweat it! You’ll just have to pick up your book from the cinema box office. Read the book and then join other teens as we screen the film adaptation and host a round-table discussion.

Book: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Film: Ready Player One (dir. Stephen Spielberg, 2018)
Book Delivery Registration Deadline: Sunday June 5

Registration fee includes 1 book, 1 private screening ticket, and the post film discussion.

Common Sense Media Book Review: Recommended for ages 15+

Common Sense Media Film Review: Recommended for ages 12+

Synopsis: In 2045 the planet is on the brink of chaos and collapse, but people find salvation in the OASIS: an expansive virtual reality universe created by eccentric James Halliday. When Halliday dies, he promises his immense fortune to the first person to discover a digital Easter egg that’s hidden somewhere in the OASIS. When young Wade Watts joins the contest, he finds himself becoming an unlikely hero in a reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical world of mystery, discovery and danger.