Pay It Forward Paperback

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. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; 1999 Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1476796386 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1476796383 Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 12 years Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 630L Grade level ‏ : ‎ Preschool - 2 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.38 inches