Pay It Forward

Pay It Forward - Paperback

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Pay It Forward - Paperback

Pay It Forward - Paperback

by Catherine Ryan Hyde
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by Catherine Ryan Hyde (Author)

An immediate bestseller when first published, Pay It Forward captured hearts all over the world, became a wildly popular film, and spawned a generation of increased altruism. This anniversary edition includes a new introduction by the author. It takes an inspiring and moving tale of a young boy who believed in the power of kindness and brings it to a new generation of readers.

Twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney accepts his social studies teacher's challenge: come up with a plan to change the world. His idea is simple: Do a good deed for three people and ask them to "pay it forward" to three others in need. He envisions a vast movement of kindness and goodwill spreading beyond his small California town and across the world. The project, however, appears to falter. Jerry, a bum who receives some allowance money from Trevor, returns to a life of dissolution. Trevor wants his pretty, hardworking mother--a woman who raised him lovingly despite struggles with alcoholism--to marry his teacher, Reuben St. Clair. Reuben is a scarred, bitter, untrusting man with a disfiguring injury from Vietnam. He seems to come alive only when in front of his class. For a time that matchmaking brings nothing but problems. Ultimately, though, unusual things start to happen. Crime rates dip across the nation, and nobody seems to know why. Then a journalist tracks down the source: an epidemic of random acts of kindness.

Anyone who has ever despaired of one person's ability to effect change will rejoice in Trevor's courage and determination to see the good in everyone.
Number of Pages: 336
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: December 23, 2014
ISBN9781476796383
Author Catherine Ryan Hyde
PublisherSimon & Schuster
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 2014
LanguageENG- English
Pages336
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Catherine Ryan Hyde

CATHERINE RYAN HYDE is the author of four other young adult novels: Becoming Chloe, The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance, The Day I Killed James, and Diary of a Witness. She is also the author of several adult novels, including the national bestseller Pay It Forward, Love in the Present Tense, Electric God, and Chasing Windmills. Catherine Ryan Hyde is also an award-winning short story writer and a professional speaker. She lives in California and writes full-time.

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