Restart Hardcover – May 30, 2017

Absolutely loved this. I am a middle school ELA teacher and we started reading this book before the end of school. I was pulled in and finished reading it on my own!Chase Ambrose is a star football player who gets amnesia and has to figure out who he is.Definitely recommend for anyone really. It shows it affects of bullying as well as how people can change.

My middle school son loved it.

This book handles a century long topic of bullies, in a very modern way. It also addresses behavior = consequences.

Came in good condition.

Excellent book! Keeps my 4th graders on the edge of their seats. They can’t wait for each chapter. I have read this to multiple groups and they all love it.

Awesome! I really liked Restart, the author knows how to write a good story, thank you!

Middle-schooler Chase Ambrose gets that chance when he falls off his roof and gets amnesia, causing him to forget his family, friends, and his own personality. It turns out Chase Ambrose was a football star, like his dad, and was also the biggest bully in school. He and his best friends, also football players, got away with everything because of their status as champion athletes. They were even sentenced to community service for booby-trapping a piano during a school performance and sending Joel, the kid playing the piano, to boarding school to escape them.But Chase now has no desire to destroy things or intimidate other people. He doesn't remember doing any of those things in the past and, frankly, he doesn't understand why he would ever want to do them. Everybody else remembers though, and they're hesitant, maybe cautiously optimistic, in believing that Chase is a new person.As pieces of his past are revealed, it's easy to see how Chase got caught up in the life he previously led, especially when seeing the way his dad behaves. (By the way, I found it odd that his dad was so obsessed with his own MIDDLE SCHOOL football glory days and never mentioned his high school football career. Yes, Chase is in middle school so of course his dad would be making comparisons to himself at that age, but it seemed like he was invested in the middle school team for years and not so much the high school team. Maybe this is more insight into Dad's character, but it made me have to keep reminding myself that we were talking about middle school football here and not high school.)But Chase, with his amnesia, is able to take a step back from all the status and the pressure, and see things from a new perspective. He develops other interests and friendships separate from his football friends. He bonds with his little sister, who was previously terrified of him. And he continues doing community service at the retirement home, even though his brain injury excuses him from doing so, because he finds that he actually enjoys it.It's a constant struggle for him as he starts to remember who he used to be and what he'd done in the past. He has to figure out if he can still be this new Chase, who he prefers, or if it's inevitable that he slips back into his old ways. The other characters also have to figure out if they can trust him for good or if he will eventually turn on them. Can a person truly change that much? And for how long? Can Chase withstand the pressures put on him by his dad and his football friends, or will he cave because it's easier? He has to decide who he is now, which pieces of his past and present can combine to make up his true character, and move forward from there.

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