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Pay It Forward

A Novel

By Catherine Ryan Hyde

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Catherine Ryan Hyde’s international sensation, Pay It Forward, is the moving story of Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy who accepts his social studies teacher’s challenge to come up with a plan to change the world.Trevor’s idea is simple: Do a good deed for three people and ask th Continue


Catherine Ryan Hyde’s international sensation, Pay It Forward, is the moving story of Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy who accepts his social studies teacher’s challenge to come up with a plan to change the world.Trevor’s idea is simple: Do a good deed for three people and ask them to "pay it forward" to three others who need help. He envisions a vast movement of kindness and goodwill spreading beyond his small California town and across the world. However, when Jerry, a bum to whom Trevor gave his allowance, returns to a life of dissolution, the project seems valuable only as a lesson on the dark side of human nature. But ultimately Trevor is vindicated. At first people don’t know how to explain the odd dip in crime rates across the nation, but a journalist with a story of his own tracks down the source of the epidemic of random acts of kindness and makes Trevor a celebrity. Yet Trevor has problems closer to home: he wants his pretty, hardworking mother to see the softer side of his beloved teacher, Reuben St. Clair, a scarred Vietnam veteran who seems to come alive only when he’s in front of his class.

Anyone who has ever despaired of one person’s ability to effect change will rejoice in Trevor’s courage and his determination to see the good in everyone.

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  • Pay It Forward (cassette) By Catherine Ryan Hyde

    It all began with the idea of writing a story about a school assignment. It blossomed into the remarkable novel Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde, an extraordinary tale that, like its young protagonist, just might change the world. When social st ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

  • Pay It Forward (CD) By Catherine Ryan Hyde

    It all began with the idea of writing a story about a school assignment. It blossomed into the remarkable novel Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde, an extraordinary tale that, like its young protagonist, just might change the world. When social st ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

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    When mankind's goodness has a real limit

    I'd love to give a 5 to this book, but the idea of pay it forward is not as great as it seems. It could work, sure, but for a limited time: good action, in this world, are limited to people's excitation. That usually doesnt stay for long, a couple of months and just few people would really ke ... (continue)

    I'd love to give a 5 to this book, but the idea of pay it forward is not as great as it seems. It could work, sure, but for a limited time: good action, in this world, are limited to people's excitation. That usually doesnt stay for long, a couple of months and just few people would really keep going pay it forward. And the idea would die, soon.
    So what would made pay it forward survive?
    I think the authoress got it. There was no hope for Trevor's idea to survive without a tragic event, connected to it, that would have made people's heart REALLY change. And so Trevor death came...fast and unexpected as the blade that killed him. That's what I love of this book: the reality never goes completely away, ready to appear and upset the readers. The Happy Ending doesnt exist either, just a mitigated end which is shared between the characters and never accontent just one person. A bitter plea bargain that taste like hope and rebirth... the perfect ending.
    That keep us on reality even on a book made by hope and trust on mankind's goodness.

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