Restart

Title: Restart

Author: Gordon Korman

AR Level: Copper

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Review: Restart

Chase wakes up in a hospital and can’t remember anything- not even his mom’s face! It turns out he fell off his roof and hit his head. When he is well enough to go back to school, Chase can tell some of the kids are afraid of him. Other kids think he is awesome because he was a football star. He can’t play football for a while, so he starts hanging out with kids in the video club, and realizes he enjoys their company. He starts to hear stories about the awful things he did to kids at his school. He was so awful, one of the kids moved to a different school to avoid Chase. His old friends want him to act like the Chase he was before his accident. However, this new Chase wants to be different.

This story is about second chances and taking the opportunity to do the right thing; even if it is really hard.