The best way to increase reading skills is to read. Simple enough. Many teens are reading longer, complex texts less and less. Our freshmen English students enter high school with the opportunity to engage with a young adult novel with a dynamite storyline and teen main characters. What a great way to jump back into the English classroom and back into reading. Our students success with this title was enhanced in the spring semester when we took a field trip to a local theater to see our novel's adaptation on opening day! When we returned to our building, we took a chunk of our afternoon to debrief on how they responded to the film and its accuracy to their reading. We filled the board with critical, insightful, accurate, passionate, careful analysis and response to the film. I was impressed and amazed with their recall, retention, investment, and careful thinking. They worked as a community of readers and viewers to reflect and share out their observations and experiences. It was a super chargered afternoon of learning and affirmation that teen readers can use text in meaningful ways to become critical readers and thinkers. Outstanding.