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March 7, 2025 at 04:49 pm Reply

Jack H

Dear Gordon Korman,

I have made a sequel scene to your story, restart. I wrote it from the perspective of Chase Ambrose. Also, how long did it take you to write restart?

Here is the sequel scene, At lunch I have been alternating days, with sitting at the video club table and sitting with the football team. When I sit at the video clubs table I sit next to Joel and Brendan. We normally talk about new video ideas but lately Brendan has been talking about how we should all try to pull pranks on kids and make it a video. This made me have a flashback that was not pleasant. It was a flashback of me, Aaron, and Bear pulling a prank on Joel. We were in the bathroom and we were washing our hands and Joel walked in the bathroom. We then got a handful of cold water in our hands and put it down the back of Joel's shirt. Then we ran off and Joel’s pants started getting wet. We were in the same class so when he got back into class and when he sat down, he made the loudest ssssskkkkk. The whole class started to laugh. Then the flashback stopped. The whole video club team disagreed with the idea, But Brendan kept trying to persuade us. We also found out that the world wide video contest was happening. Only 10 teams from 10 countries competed in it. We were one of them! Me and Shoshanna were selected in it. Shoshanna asked if Joel could do it with us and I said yes because me and Joel started to bond together. I still felt super bad about what I did to Joel but now we're friends. Even Joel's parents have softened a little bit on me. They still dont forgive me, but they don’t hate me as much as they hated me 6 months ago. For the video contest we thought about doing it with Mr. Solway, but we also were debating to do it with the football team. We decided to do it with mr. Solway since we won the national video contest with him. Kimmy and Brendan were in love with each other because of what Brendan did to try to save kimmy. Then Kimmy went and made One Man Band into a joke and she posted it on youtube. The video got 306,000likes! Brandan’s dream goal had finally happened.The next football game was an important one because it would decide if we made the playoffs. Also we were playing against our school rivals, the Manhattan sharks. We were warming up and I had a feeling that something bad was going to happen. The first quarter was clean and we were up 7 - 3. In the second quarter I scored a touchdown and had 58 yards receiving. The score at half time was 14 - 10 us. The third quarter got heated. It was turnover, after turnover and the amount of flags was crazy ! The fourth quarter was insane! It was tied up 21 - 21 and it was our ball. Aaron was playing at lineman and the other team had tall and heavy lineman and when the hurricanes snapped and the ball the sharks lineman was doing his job and Aaron was down on the ground in pain. I couldn't tell if he was really hurt, hurt, or faking. The medical staff on our team were on the field helping Aaron but they couldn’t help him. Their only choice was to call an ambulance. We were all hoping for the best for Aaron because the medical staff said that his ankle and the area around that was having problems. They said that something was missing in the ankle spot. When the ambulance arrived, They quickly rushed him to the hospital! Even the game had to be postponed because of the incident. This was an insane night! When I got home, I explained everything to my mom because my dad already knew about what happened because he was at the game. I was worried for him.

Did you like it?

From Jack H
March 7, 2025 at 07:22 pm Reply

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Beautifully done, Jack! And really funny, also needs editing. But making a stinker out of Brendan wasn't a choice I would have made. Still, your prose really flows. Do you do a lot of writing? I may be sending you a fan letter one day, just like I told another person in your group!

Actually, I think RESTART has exactly enough chapters, and ends where it should. But I'm very flattered that so many kids who read it are wanting to see more.

Thanks for showing me your work! I really got a kick out of it! -----Gordon Korman-----
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Beautifully done, Jack! And really funny, also needs editing. But making a stinker out of Brendan wasn't a choice I would have made. Still, your prose really flows. Do you do a lot of writing? I may be sending you a fan letter one day, just like I told another person in your group!

Actually, I think RESTART has exactly enough chapters, and ends where it should. But I'm very flattered that so many kids who read it are wanting to see more.

Thanks for showing me your work! I really got a kick out of it! -----Gordon Korman-----