Gordon Korman is an amazing Canadian author. He published his first book when he was just 14 years old and went on to publish four more novels before he graduated high school. I remember reading his books when I was in school. Today Gordon Korman knows his audience just as well as he did back then. Restart is a hilarious novel that I read aloud to a grade 4/5 class this year. The characters were funny and students could relate to them.
Chase Ambrose is the biggest bully in school. No one is out of Chase's target zone. He picks on everyone. Until one day he falls off the roof of his house and gets amnesia. What's more shocking is that Chase that fell of the roof is actually a nice guy and has no memory of being the school bully. Many students wonder if it can really be true. Chase wonders if he really could have been that bad. If Chase's memory comes back will he still be the nice guy or go back to his old ways?
This would be a great book to pick up for a junior grade student to read this summer. I wonder if we might see it on the Forest of Reading list in November. He also has a new book called Whatshisface that just came out and looks to be just as funny.
