Books with title Magic Lantern

People don’t live inside lanterns; they don’t light them up.Five days before Halloween, all sixteen-year-old Tori has on her mind is vacationing with her family and scoring lots of candy. Her grandmother’s estate, with its Gothic spires and trails that lead out to the woods, holds an unexpected secret: a lantern that lights up for Tori and nobody else. Certain it’s a ghost or a prank, she investigates further and discovers a mysterious life that shines in the darkness.

EXT. EXISTENTIAL VOID - DAY EZRA MORALES (17, straight-edged, weird). A nerd with lofty dreams of becoming a filmmaker, but is held back by a confused grief for his alcoholic mother.When Ezra graduates one year after his mother's death, it kickstarts a summer that threatens to change everything he holds dear. His friends bring him into the rambunctious world of high school parties he avoided for so long, a rift in his family and within himself widens, and the one person he thought he could count on seems to be outgrowing him. And worst of all? His only outlet is a truly, truly terrible sense of humor.Magic Lantern tells the semi-autobiographical story of Ezra's last summer as a kid as he struggles between deciding to hold on to the life he had with his friends and mom, or to let go of it all and embrace the after-credits scenes of adolescence.

EXT. EXISTENTIAL VOID - DAYEZRA MORALES (17, straight-edged, weird). A nerd with lofty dreams of becoming a filmmaker, but is held back by a confused grief for his alcoholic mother.When Ezra graduates one year after his mother's death, it kickstarts a summer that threatens to change everything he holds dear. His friends bring him into the rambunctious world of high school parties he avoided for so long, a rift in his family and within himself widens, and the one person he thought he could count on seems to be outgrowing him. And worst of all? His only outlet is a truly, truly terrible sense of humor.Magic Lantern tells the semi-autobiographical story of Ezra's last summer as a kid as he struggles between deciding to hold on to the life he had with his friends and mom, or to let go of it all and embrace the after-credits scenes of adolescence.

Five days before Halloween, all 16-year-old Tori has on her mind is vacationing with her family and scoring lots of candy. Her grandmother's estate, with its Gothic spires and trails that lead out to the woods, holds an unexpected secret: a lantern that lights up for Tori and nobody else. Certain that it's a ghost or a prank, she investigates further and discovers a mysterious life that shines in the darkness.