Pay It Forward (2014)
Fiction / General, - Fiction / Family Life / General, - Juvenile Fiction / Family / General, - Juvenile Fiction / School & Education, - Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Values & Virtues -
NOT_MATURE -
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Overview
<b>The internationally bestselling book that inspired the Pay It Forward movement is now available in a middle grade edition.</b><br><br><i>Pay It Forward</i> is a moving, uplifting novel about Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy in a small California town who accepts his teacher’s challenge to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to change the world. Trevor’s idea is simple: do a good deed for three people, and instead of asking them to return the favor, ask them to “pay it forward” to three others who need help. He envisions a vast movement of kindness and goodwill spreading across the world, and in this “quiet, steady masterpiece with an incandescent ending” (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>), Trevor’s actions change his community forever.<br> <br>This middle grade edition of <i>Pay It Forward </i>is extensively revised, making it an appropriate and invaluable complement to lesson plans and an ideal pick for book clubs, classroom use, and summer reading. Includes an author'snote and curriculum guide.