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