Restart

By: Gordon Korman

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross, Laura Knight Keating, Ramon de Ocampo, Andy Paris, Suzy Jackson, Graham Halstead, John Kroft

Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's Summary

New York Times best-selling author Gordon Korman harkens back to his No More Dead Dogs days in this stand-alone that takes a tone more serious than you've ever heard from him before.

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?

©2017 Gordon Korman (P)2017 Recorded Books

Great story for kids

I listened to this book with my daughters. They really got a lot out of it and had some important lessons reinforced! Excellent book!

22 people found this helpful

Amazing book

This book was addictive to listen to! We listened to it on a road trip and it was a great book for my 9 year old and 13 year old to listen to. It made the drive so fast and the story has a great story line. I highly recommend this book.

15 people found this helpful

Great story, great narration, thoroughly enjoyed!

This is a great story for middle-schoolers on up to adults. It is about second chances and making choices, bullying and peer pressure and even parenting. Very enjoyable listen, loved all the different voices and characters.

13 people found this helpful

Great read!

Wonderful! i cannot wait to use this as my first read aloud with my 4th grade students! The narration is amazing.

9 people found this helpful

An amazing book for readers big and small

Tweens will love this book!! It's written in an engaging manner that each character is someone kids can connect to.

21 people found this helpful

We could all use a Restart

My sons English teacher is reading this to his 7th grade class. In an effort to know what he’s learning and maybe learn a few things myself I decided to listen. This book is a story of redemption, being there for your friends and finding out who your real friends are. Great read for kids and parents.

13 people found this helpful

So fun!

I am an adult, and occasionally I read a book for young adults or kids. I am usually disappointed, but not this time. This book grabbed me from the start, and I loved it right to the end. Yes, this would be a great book for a young reader, age 10-14, but I was riveted. It's a very fun, feel-good novel. It's about a bully who loses his memory and seems to become a different person. I found myself caring a lot about the characters, and rooting for the main character, Chase, to turn his life around. I think that almost any kid would love this book, and adults with some kid in them (like me, I guess) would too.

9 people found this helpful

Inspiring book

My kids loved this story of truth, reconciliation. We listened to this story on a road trip and it sparked plenty of healthy conversation between my 7, 11 and 13 year old. Would be great for a book study at school.

8 people found this helpful

Ehhhh

I might be a little bias towards the main topic in this story, amnesia, since I actually have it, so that may have skews my opinion of it. The story was okay, but most of the medical and legal aspects of it were poorly done. The problem with the medical side is that if you hit your head hard enough to get amnesia, that isn’t going to be your only problem. You’re looking at a lifetime of problems, if you’re lucky enough to live past the first five years. So if realism isn’t something you care about, it’s a fine book. But if your looking for even a somewhat accurate portrayal of someone with TBI-induced amnesia, as I was, this isn’t the book for you

33 people found this helpful

Funny and Inspiring

Gordon Korman has written a number of excellent children’s books, but this is likely my favorite so far. The story is compelling, the characters come to feel like people you know. This audio version is very well-done. Easily a 5-Star selection in my opinion!

6 people found this helpful