Pay It Forward
It all started with the social studies teacher's extra-credit assignment: come up with a plan to change the world for the better, and do it. Twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney began by doing something good for three people. But instead of paying him back, he asked them to "pay it forward" by doing a...
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It all started with the social studies teacher's extra-credit assignment: come up with a plan to change the world for the better, and do it. Twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney began by doing something good for three people. But instead of paying him back, he asked them to "pay it forward" by doing a favor for three more people, who in turn would help three others, and so on, each act a link in a chain of human kindness.And no one -- not his teacher, his mom, or anyone in his small California town -- could ever have dreamed of how far Trevor's plan would go.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780743412025 (0743412028)
Publish date: October 1st 2000
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Realistic Fiction,
Media Tie In,
Movies,
Adult,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Inspirational
This movie makes me cry, every time!
This movie makes me cry, every time!
Ugh. I have a problem with these overly-corny "the innocent little child softens the hearts of all the mean people" kind of books. It was like a slightly more modern, more depressing version of Pollyanna (which I also hated...), only with a boy of course.I actually liked the basic idea; it could hav...
It's an amazing story, handled with enough grace to make it seem realistic, even in this cynical world of ours. Because really, how difficult is it to pay it forward to just three people?Few books have made me cry this much. The tears were literally running down my cheeks while reading the last few ...
I check off "books that made me cry" for any book that will bring a lump to my throat, even if there are no actual tears. This is one book, and the only book at that, that made me actually sob, put the book down and have a good cry, before picking it up to carry on reading. I've never found anothe...
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