One book that I read this summer and really liked was Restart by Gordon Korman. Restart is about a boy, Chase, that gets amnesia and can't remember anything after falling off the roof of his house. I liked this book because Chase gets a chance to restart his life in a unique way. As he slowly realizes that he was a bully in the past, he struggles with deciding who he wants to be NOW. One thing that he discovers is that he doesn't want to be like the guys that used to be his best friends.
Even though it isn't very likely that many of us fall off a roof and get amnesia, we do have a choice every day to be the person we want to be. Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to make choices that may not be the popular thing to do, to be different, but this book taught me the importance of being brave and true to who you really are.
