Restart

Restart by Gordon Korman, 243 pages

When Chase falls off the roof, he loses his memory.  He doesn’t remember what he, or any of his family members look like.  He doesn’t remember anything from his old life.    But when school starts and he meets his old friends again, and gets to know his classmates, he starts to realize that he may have been a pretty awful person before his fall.  Chase gets to know some of the kids that he used to bully and finds that he really likes them.  He doesn’t like his two former best friends nearly as well.  Can Chase find a way to reconcile who he used to be with the person he wants to be now?  This book, which is told from the point of view of Chase and, in alternating chapters, a few of the kids in his class, is an excellent story.  I would give this to older elementary kids who like realistic fiction.