Restart by Gordon Korman

Chase wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the first 13 years of his life. People tell him that he fell from the roof of his house and hit his head, but he has no memory of that either. When he heals well enough to return to school, he begins to discover that he was a big-shot on campus, star of the football team with a close knit group of friends. He also discovers that he was not a model citizen and did some things that he now regrets. Now he needs to decide if he wants to reclaim his former status, or keep his new friends who are the very nerds he used to persecute.

This was not my favorite of Korman's books, but it was pretty good. It took quite a suspension of belief that someone's personality would change that much because of amnesia.  It was also hard to believe that Chase would forget all the people he knew, but not everything else, like how to do math or play football.  The selective nature of his amnesia was a bit too convenient.  If you can swallow that, then the rest of the book is interesting and thought provoking.  You are cheering for Chase to realize that his old life and friends were really lousy and he should keep his better, albeit more humble, new life.  This one would be an interesting one for a parent/son book club. (2017, 243 p.)