Restart

Both use multiple narrators to explore bullying from every perspective, but Wonder centers the victim while Restart centers the bully — together they form a complete picture

Both feature boys using athletic talent to navigate identity and belonging, with sports as both escape and trap

Another story about identity shaped by athletic ability and family pressure, told with the intensity of middle school emotional stakes

An unlikely friendship between a large, feared boy and a smaller, vulnerable one — exploring whether people can transcend the identities others assign them

A YA novel about a popular, cruel teenager forced to relive her last day — same question of whether awareness of harm leads to change, but with higher stakes

Both explore what happens when memory is removed from a community or individual — and whether ignorance is the same as innocence