Gordon Korman's Restart teaches us that people do have choices and that they can change. Chase learns this lesson after he falls off a roof and ends up with amnesia. He doesn't remember the kind of person he has been, nor what he has done up to this point. He is starting his life over with a clean slate, and he must make some important choices about the kind of person he will be from now on.

Chase quickly learns about the kind of person he once was, and he is far from pleased by what he discovers. It turns out that Chase has been one of the biggest, nastiest bullies at his school, and people are terrified of him. The new Chase is extremely bothered by this. He no longer wants to act like that, and he chooses not to. In fact, he chooses to help people, including Brendan Espinoza, who would once have been the victim of Chase's bullying. Chase does, in fact, assist Brendan with a video project and ends up finding a new interest. He even joins the video club.

Chase encounters some challenges along the way, however. His old friends and fellow bullies, Aaron and Bear, don't want Chase to change. They would much rather he be the person he once was, and they pressure him to return to his old ways. But Chase now knows that he does have choices and that he can remain the new person he has become. If he wants, the change can be permanent, but that is, as he has learned, up to him.