Name: Restart
ISBN: 9781338053784

Gordon Korman

#1 New York Times bestselling author Gordon Korman's tale of a boy who doesn't know who he is anymore . . . literally.

Restart

A boy who's been a bully and hanging out with the wrong friends gets a new start after a memory-loss-inducing accident. But can someone really change who he is, or will the old him merely come back over time?

Sarah Sammis

Teenage sociopath is cured by amnesia. :/

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Nadine 

#middle_grade #bullying 
Nice premise that the school bully gets a chance to restart after a fall from the roof causes amnesia and a personality change. Some good plot twists.

Lily D

The only things I liked about this book was I sorta enjoyed Brendan but other than that I was bored and didn't like it.

Jeni Enjaian

I enjoyed this book and the scenario it presented. Although many have used the amnesia trope before, Korman used it well, realistically, in this book. Although the change in narrators in the second chapter through me a little, I loved the change between Chase, Shoshanna, and Brendan. (I should have paid more attention to the name written at the top of the chapter, clearly marked. The confusion was all my fault.) To tell the whole story from one point of view would rob the readers of so much. Sometimes narrator changes contribute confusion, however, when done well, multiple narrators shapes a more complete story for the reader. Korman does it well.

I definitely recommend this book, even though the ending seemed to stretch the suspension of disbelief a little as well as have a little deus ex machina included.

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Katie Day

Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?

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