76 pages 2 hours read

Gordon Korman

Restart

Fiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2017

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Essay Topics

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If you had to start your life over without any knowledge of the person you were, how do you think you would be different? What events in your life have made you treat people as you do? Would you be a better person or a lesser person if you had not experienced those events? Are people born knowing how to be good to others, or is kindness something everyone must learn as they grow up?

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As children become young adults, they begin to value the opinions and advice of other young people, especially their friends, more than the opinions of their parents and other adults. Why do young people trust their peers more than they trust adults?

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What lessons about bullying can be found in Restart? Do you see yourself either as a victim of bullying or as a bully? Eventually, Chase Ambrose became the victim of bullying himself. Was this something he deserved since he had bullied so many other kids?