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Pay It Forward

by Catherine Ryan Hyde (Goodreads Author)

4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 · rating details · 6,366 ratings · 326 reviews

Pay It Forward is a wondrous and moving story about Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy in a small California town who accepts the challenge that his teacher gives his class, a chance to earn extra credit by coming up with a plan to change the world for the better--and to put that plan into action.

The plan that Trevor comes up with is so simple--and so naive--that when...more

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Published February 3rd 2000 by Simon & Schuster (first published 1999)

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May 09, 2013 Hailey Leister rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In this exciting book a boy named Trevor gets a project from his Social Studies teacher to somehow change the world. But Trevor to this project to a totally different level then his teacher Ruben expected. Trevor decided to create a movement called "pay it forward." To help make the world a better place. This book talks about his journey along the way and how he pays it forward to society. I would most definitely recommend this book. It was a very inspiring and easy to read.

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May 09, 2013 §♫♪♥Delaney♥♪♫§ Wants To Help K rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde is about a 12 year old boy named Trevor who is in 7th grade. During this year his social studies teacher gives the class an extra-credit assignment to make a difference in the world. Trevor took this assignment very seriously and decided to create a world changing movement called "Pay it Forward". Throughout the book it shows diary entries from Trevor. It is also written in 3rd person omniscient, meaning there are many narrators through out the story. The bo...more

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Dec 13, 2007 Mirna rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: inspiring

Saya belum pernah baca bukunya. Review ini dari hasil saya nonton filmnya. Sebelumnya saya pernah review ini di blog saya di : http://mirnabanget.blogspot.com/2007/... tapi berikut saya copy-paste juga di sini.

Pay It Forward : Life cannot gives more beautiful things than what you already have right now

Beberapa hari yg lalu, saya nonton lagi "Pay It Forward" (PIF). Salah satu film lama yg menginspirasi saya. Endingnya selalu bikin saya nangis. PIF bercerita tentang ide seorang anak 6 SD untuk tug...more

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Aug 07, 2010 Oleg Kagan rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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For a book with such a contrived plot, stupid and shallow characters, completely predictable ending, strange acting choices (on audio), and prose that mercilessly buggers the reader/listener with marathons of cliches, Pay It Forward was inspiring. I was inspired to throw my hands in the air every few minutes shouting "REALLY!? THEY CAN'T BE SERIOUS" at the idiotic plot turns and character developments. To take a phrase that has been around for at least a hundred years and treat it like it's a ne...more

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Nov 09, 2010 Rose Ann rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: borrowed-from-library, read-in-2010

Not many books have actually made me cry....this one did....in the last few chapters.
Bittersweet.

I originally gave this book 4 stars, but the more I thought about it, it really deserves 5 stars from me...here is why and what I took with me after reading this book:
1. The next time someone asks me how they can pay me back...I will defintely tell them to pay it forward instead!
2. Don't just SAY you are going to do something to help someone....stop talking about it and DO it. Life is short.

I liked t...more

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Dec 04, 2008 Ethan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

great book... a little inappropriate for an 11 year old but still great.

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Nov 21, 2008 Luciano rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was moved to read this book after hearing a couple of people at work raving about it.

I love the premise of the author's idea and how she goes about developing it within the story line. It really is an excellent story. What makes this story so engrossing to read, is how the author piggy backs from one situation to another, eventually bringing it full circle. It's like watching a row of literary dominoes fall, one on top of another; with the fall of each subsequent domino influencing the traject...more

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May 02, 2013 Catie Borgerson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The book, Pay it Forward, by Catherine Ryan Hyde, tells the story of young Trevor Mckinney and how he changed the world with only an extra credit assignment and an idea. Trevor is only 12 years old and on his first day of seventh grade, his teacher gives him an extra credit assignment, "Think of an idea for world change and put it into action." After sometime of thinking, he had come up with something that he was very excited about and the exciting idea is something he would call paying it forwa...more

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May 02, 2013 Traci Hollander rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Pay it Forward, written by Catherine Ryan Hyde begins with a teacher everyone thought was crazy. He publicized an extra credit activity he thought the class would at least try. Some kids tried but one stood out to Mr. Reuben, Trevor a twelve year old participant in Mr. Reuben's class. This book expressed the importance of the journey and how much more excitement the journey is than the destination. So, when Trevor did this extra credit work he surprised his teacher. He showed his teacher how any...more

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Jun 02, 2012 Erin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

This book was one of the many stories that I’ve enjoyed more than the movie version. However, something must be said for the director’s presentation, because pace, sequence, and point of view (POV) of Catherine Ryan Hyde’s writing grated on my nerves.

Jumping from perspectives, voices, diaries, book blurbs, newspaper articles, and interviews only distracted what was otherwise a wonderful, refreshing plot with interesting, complex characters. It’s frustrating when a writer uses these sort of POV-s...more

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Apr 03, 2012 Kathleen Hagen added it · review of another edition

Pay It Forward, by Catherine Ryan Hyde, Narrated by William Dufris, Produced by Simon and Schuster Audio,Downloaded from audible.com.

A freelance journalist hears that crime seems to be decreasing in some of the big cities for no reason the police can explain. It seems to trace back to one gang banger who now claims to have developed the theory of helping three people and asking them to “pay it forward” to help three more people etc. But as the journalist digs, he finds out that the idea really o...more

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Mar 11, 2012 Elliot Ratzman rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is an interesting idea wrapped in a mediocre novel and packaged as a wretched movie. Trevor McKinney is challenged by his new and disfigured social studies teacher to come up with a project to change the world. His idea to ‘pay if forward’ is to do three extraordinary acts of kindness for strangers so that they will in turn do three acts, and so forth until exponentially everyone in the world now is now doing kind acts. The math doesn’t work out, and the author’s ‘vision’ of goodness is unc...more

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Aug 27, 2011 Adriana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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May 17, 2011 Hanna C rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. April 2010. 311 pages. ISBN 978-1-4391-7040-3. Young Adult.

Incredulous page turning will lead the reader up to a ending that will make them tear up. The story is about a twelve-year-old boy named Trevor Mckinney whom engages in the extra credit assignment a fellow social studies techer assigned. The project was to challenge yourself to change the world. Trevor's mindset was tremendously over many peoples head but he panned it out to the extreme. He changed many...more

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Mar 02, 2011 Jennifer Willis rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If I hadn’t had anything else on my plate, I would have read Catherine Ryan Hyde’s Pay It Forward straight through. Even so, I pushed some things off and shuffled the schedule around in order to make time for reading.

I had seen the movie a few years ago, but hadn’t been aware until recently that it had been based on a book. Usually the books are better and more satisfying than the movies that are based on them, so I was happy to find a copy of “Pay It Forward” in my local library. After reading...more If I hadn’t had anything else on my plate, I would have read Catherine Ryan Hyde’s Pay It Forward straight through. Even so, I pushed some things off and shuffled the schedule around in order to make time for reading.

I had seen the movie a few years ago, but hadn’t been aware until recently that it had been based on a book. Usually the books are better and more satisfying than the movies that are based on them, so I was happy to find a copy of “Pay It Forward” in my local library. After reading it, in the space of about twenty-four hours, I am giving each family member a copy.

It’s true I’m an avid reader and take great pleasure getting lost in a good story, but I don’t usually become quite so emotionally involved in a book that I burst into tears in just the first few pages. This is what happened with Hyde’s novel, and it set the tone for the rest of the story. The writer’s honest and compassionate style of writing is deceptively simple. Her characters are far from extraordinary and can be downright maddening in their very human foibles, but this is precisely what makes them so accessible. For the most part, these are not enviable, heroic people, and they often reflect back to us the worst and most frustrating aspects of ourselves.

Arlene revealed to me what could have become of my own life, at least in one particular aspect: she is an alcoholic, struggling with getting sober. She’ll get a few days or even a few months in, and then it’s all over in one night when life simply gets too tough. And even when she does manage to leave the alcohol behind, she is forced to look herself right in the face, warts and all, whether she wants to or not. What I do remember of the first few years of sobriety was a similarly shaky emotional rollercoaster, accompanied by brutal reality that was often way too real.

And so I was ripped raw by a simple entry from her son’s diary, before Arlene’s story began to unfold. Trevor, who invents the idea of “paying it forward,” compares his mother to a child with a medical condition that leaves him without the ability to feel pain, only Trevor sees that Arlene is like that on the inside. He writes that she knows not to “keep putting her hand on the hot stove,” and yet she keeps doing it anyway — knowing that she is hurting herself, but unable to stop, and unable to really feel the pain.

The title, of course, is taken from a school project that Trevor turns in for his social studies class. Accepting an assignment to come up with an idea that can change the world, Trevor maps out a plan to help three people — really help them, to have a positive, life-altering impact — and then instead of asking those people to pay him back, require instead that they “pay it forward” to another three people, who then each will pay it forward to another three, and so on. The idea is brilliant in its simplicity, and incredibly powerful in action. Assuming that everyone follows through. Trusting another human being with so large a task, especially in today’s cynical, closed-off society, is not small feat in itself, regardless of the results.

Hyde masterfully tracks the starts and stops in the lives of her characters as they reach for, then reject, then reach for again the growth, the happiness, and the real living that are rightfully theirs.

Ultimately, I found this story to be about compassion, about putting aside your ego for one moment, for one beautiful opportunity to be truly present for another human being in need, with absolutely no thought of what you’re going to get in return. Because the whole point is to keep that “compassion in action” moving ever forward, spreading vigilantly across the globe. The miraculous side benefit to these acts of altruism is proving to yourself that regardless of how low and useless you think you might be, you can and do have power to impact the world around you — and that kind of honest self-realization changes you. Your priorities change, your principles shift, and you find that you are not at all the person you once thought you were. You are plugged into something larger than yourself; you belong; you are an active co-creator in the world at large.

Sure, I knew where the book was headed, because even with all of the differences between the text and the screen, I’d seen the movie, and the story is largely the same. Even so, I was astonished to find myself in need of a fresh kleenex every couple of pages as the book drew to a close. The incredible potential for the planet that this book describes has simply rattled me to my core. It’s so simple, really. How easy it would be, through intentional, deliberate action, to change another person’s life for the better. To help someone who is down on his luck to get back on his feet again. To help an at-risk teenager afford an education. To help a struggling family set up a home of their own. To help a single mother find a decent job. To be the gift of friendship in the life of a lonely neighbor. To help an adult learn how to read. To simply show up for someone, especially a complete stranger, and ask, “How can I help?”

We each have that power in our hands, at this very moment. How many such moments have we let slip by, unrealized?(less)

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Dec 13, 2010 Della rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Carilah gagasan untuk mengubah dunia, dan laksanakan.

Tugas dari guru barunya, Reuben St. Clair, membuat Trevor McKinney, siswa SMP usia 12 tahun, bertekad melaksanakannya sebaik mungkin. Ia mempunyai ide yang ia namakan Balas ke yang Lain. Ia melakukan tiga kebaikan pada tiga orang dan meminta masing-masingnya melakukan tiga kebaikan lagi pada tiga orang berbeda. Semacam MLM kebaikan, lah :)
Semua teman sekelasnya merasa apatis, karena, apa iya ada orang yang mau dengan rela menolong orang lain...more

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Jun 09, 2010 Hoover Public Library Adult Fiction rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: general-fiction

Wonderful! This is a great book for anyone. It deals with generosity, trust, self esteem, prejudice.

12 yr old Trevor takes on an assignment for extra credit. The assignment is to do something that could change the world. His idea is to help three people in a big way and in return for his help those three people must help three people each and then the people they help must help three people each etc. The premise is that if everyone did this then in no time everyone would be helping each other....more

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Nov 08, 2009 Fiona McGier rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I found this book to be interesting from the first chapter. I don't usually read fiction novels that are not romances, since I write romance, so I'm always checking out the competition. But this book made me cry at the end. The story of a teen-aged boy who tries to change the world, seemed like a plot tailor-made for being a sloppy, feel-good kind of polemic about how people need to learn how to be more trusting. But the characters of his mother Arlene, his teacher Reuben St. Clair, his neighbor...more

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Jun 28, 2009 Sitty Asiah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This Book is OWESOME....
Must rea!!!!

buku ini menceritakan tentang seorang guru Sosial cacat yang bernama Rouben St. Claire yang terbiasa memberikan satu tugas kecil tapi nggak simpel di tiap awal tahun ajarnya. tugas itu berbunyi "Buatlah sebuah ide untuk mengubah Dunia dan lakukan dalam sebuah tindakan nyata". Sebenarnya nggak banyak yang dia harapkan dari murid2nya pada tugas ini.

Tapi Trevor bukan murid biasa, dia muncul dengan sebuah ide ini yaitu "pay it forward". ia memulainya dengan berbua...more This Book is OWESOME....
Must rea!!!!

buku ini menceritakan tentang seorang guru Sosial cacat yang bernama Rouben St. Claire yang terbiasa memberikan satu tugas kecil tapi nggak simpel di tiap awal tahun ajarnya. tugas itu berbunyi "Buatlah sebuah ide untuk mengubah Dunia dan lakukan dalam sebuah tindakan nyata". Sebenarnya nggak banyak yang dia harapkan dari murid2nya pada tugas ini.

Tapi Trevor bukan murid biasa, dia muncul dengan sebuah ide ini yaitu "pay it forward". ia memulainya dengan berbuat baik pada 3 orang yang dapat benar-benar membantu orang tersebut, dan meminta mereka untuk membayarnya dengan berbuat kebaikan pada 3 orang lainnya. Kalau semuanya lancar, dalam waktu singkat, bayangkan ada berapa orang yang dapat pertolongan?

Tapi, Trevor merasa usahanya itu telah gagal, karena Jerry (seorang drug user) yang ditolongnya pertama kali malah dijebloskan ke dalam penjara, sedangakan seorang nenek yang tinggal di dekat rumahnya meninggal dunia tak lama setelah dia menceritakan misinya itu, padahal si nenek sudah sangat berniat membantunya, usahanya yang ke tiga adalah menjodohkan ibunya dengan Mr. St. Claire, tapi sepertinya ibunya masih saja mengharapkan kepulangan ayahnya yang tidak dapat diandalkan itu.

Yang Trevor tidak tahu bahwa betapa semua misinya tersebut telah benar-benar berputar ke seluruh negeri. Sampai seorang reporter berhasil mengusut berita yang dipikirnya akan menjadi Headline itu dari New York ke San Fransisco, tempat Trevor berada.

Bagaimana alur pergerakan ini sampai dapat tersebar ke seluruh Amerika? Apakah Jerry benar-benar tak peduli? atau si nenek menyebarkannya dari Surga? dan apa yang terjadi setelah Trevor memenuhi undangan Presiden ke White House? READ THE BOOK!! it's worthy....

walaupun bukunya udah terbit lama, udah di film in pula, tapi tetep harus dibaca, banyak banget lho hikmah yang bisa diambil dari buku ini.

Dan lihat, bagaimana kebaikan ternyata tidak akan begitu saja lanyap. Kebaikan akan terus berputar, dan sebelum kita mengetahuinya mungkin putarannya akan kembali ke kita. (less)

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May 30, 2009 Karin rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adult-fiction, families, realistic, relationships, relationship-problems, future, uplifting, hope, middle-school, books-made-into-movies, borrowed-from-the-library

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Trevor McKinney decides to do an extra credit assignment for his 6th grade teacher, Reuben St. Clair, which ends up changing the world. The assignment is to think of an idea (and implement it) that can make the world a better place. Trevor’s idea is deceptively simple - to do something nice, something big (not the act itself, but the meaning) for three people. Instead of having them pay him back, he asks them to pay the kindness forward by doing something nice/big for three other people. This wa...more Trevor McKinney decides to do an extra credit assignment for his 6th grade teacher, Reuben St. Clair, which ends up changing the world. The assignment is to think of an idea (and implement it) that can make the world a better place. Trevor’s idea is deceptively simple - to do something nice, something big (not the act itself, but the meaning) for three people. Instead of having them pay him back, he asks them to pay the kindness forward by doing something nice/big for three other people. This way, the number of people doing deeds and the number of people benefiting from the doing of the deeds will increase exponentially over time. It takes awhile to get going, and Trevor is initially disappointed by the results. The first person he helps, Jerry, winds up in prison. The second person he helps, Mrs. Greenberg, dies in her sleep. And the last person he tries to help, Mr. St. Clair, well, it turns out that you can’t make people get along or fall in love, even when it’s the most obvious thing to you. When the assignment is finally due, Trevor thinks that he’s failed, but he learns (later on), that people have been paying it forward. Suddenly, it’s a whole movement, and the press and the President of the United States are interested in the contribution Trevor has made. Catherine Ryan Hyde weaves the stories of some of the many individuals who paid it forward together with Trevor’s journal entries in this heart-warming (really) novel.

I was ready to be annoyed by this book, because it was chosen by our One Book One Community committee for our read this coming fall. There was a lot of pressure associated with that choice and with the project in general – all of which made me very reluctant to actually read the book. I also heard that it was emotionally manipulative and sappy. And Trevor dies at the end (he does). But it wasn’t bad. I ended up enjoying it despite all of my trepidation. I think some of the different voices were not introduced well, and the quantity of stories Hyde brings together can make it confusing to know who’s speaking at times. But the stories themselves were very compelling – how people helped one another, what it meant to them to be helped and to help others. The people involved were neither demonized nor put on pedestals – they had both good and bad qualities. So, the story felt honest. I wish there’d been more focus on Trevor and how he’d become the kind of person he was. And I was disappointed by his death. It’s easier to have him die, because he’s already accomplished this big thing and no one wants to watch him go downhill from there. But I felt that was the most manipulative thing about this. Set up this kid that everyone loves and then take him away – vaguely messianic? Anyway, I think that Pay It Forward will appeal to a number of people, and it should be a good choice for the community read.(less)

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Jan 28, 2009 Becky Wyatt rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The writing was amateurish. Neat premise however.

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Oct 13, 2009 Karen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: movie-inspired-read, paperbackswap-com-share

I really wish the movie would have stuck to the characters/situations that were in the book. It's totally different from the movie but the same if that makes any sense. Reuben was just weird in the movie. In the book his character was really well written and more understandable than the movie. I wasn't as shocked at the ending in the book since I had seen the movie but then again the movie ended with Trevor. The book didn't. I'm really glad I read this book.

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Aug 17, 2012 Naomi Hyde rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Firstly, I would like to mention that ages ago, we had a man come to our school to talk to us about the 'Pay It Forward' Movement. I thought it was a wonderful concept, but like many people, I forgot about it after a few weeks. Reading this book had reminded me of this notion of kindness and I hope I will be able to keep this ethos with me.

Ok, on to the book. I found it difficult to get into because the chapter style was quite different from books I have read. Each chapter was entitled with a na...more Firstly, I would like to mention that ages ago, we had a man come to our school to talk to us about the 'Pay It Forward' Movement. I thought it was a wonderful concept, but like many people, I forgot about it after a few weeks. Reading this book had reminded me of this notion of kindness and I hope I will be able to keep this ethos with me.

Ok, on to the book. I found it difficult to get into because the chapter style was quite different from books I have read. Each chapter was entitled with a name, and that person would be focalised throughout the chapter using heterodiegetic narration. Usually authors use this technique with homodiegetic narration, so at first I found it a weird style to use; gradually I got used to it. Then at random intervals, excerpts from future documentary books would appear, this time using homodiegetic narration, to aid the explanation of the story. I acknowledge that this was supposed to assist the readers' comprehension but I disliked it; I prefer a more uniform style of writing, and the fact that the excerpts were in the middle of the chapter disrupted the flow of the novel.
What I did enjoy was the way Hyde used many different people as the focus for the chapters, thereby giving the reader additional perspectives than the dominant protagonists' viewpoint.(view spoiler)
The ending was very poignant, tragic and heart-breaking; it was very unexpected but I think it was a good ending.
One of my main criticisms is the relationship between Arlene and Reuben. (view spoiler)
Another criticism is the writing style. I found it exceedingly simplistic and non-descriptive which made it an easy read. I prefer more detailed and in-depth writing but this seemed to lack substance, causing my mind to wander whilst reading it. Moreover, the characters' speech was unelegant as well which added to the simplistic feeling.

Overall, I quite enjoyed this book. Trevor was a brilliantly thought-out character and the plot was great as well. Despite my gripes, I do not want to give this book lower than three stars because it was quite a light-hearted and inspiring book; one of those novels that changes the way you think. If only 'Pay It Forward' were a reality in our society.(less)

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Jun 18, 2011 Rebecca rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I only saw this movie once, at a free screening way way back in the day and kind of forgot what it was about. I mean, I remember the big idea of it, but not the little details. Teacher gives the students an assignment to think of one thing to change the world or something. And a kid thinks of an idea to do big good deeds for people who it would be really important too and not to accept anything in return, but to “pay it forward”. I like the intersplicing of people paying it forward and the journ...more

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Jun 07, 2011 Brick Tragis rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Pay It forward was a classic feel good story. After reading it I wanted to try to change the world, even if it was by holding the door for someone, or helping an old women cross the street. What little Trevor did was amazing.
The story takes place in a small town around the 90's. The main character is a little boy named Trevor who has a fourth grade social studies teacher named Reuben. Personally Reuben is my favorite character in the book. He grows so much through out the novel. Reuben was injur...more

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Apr 07, 2008 Amy rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book was stupid. I have seen better writing from a freshman creative writing class. It's like it was written for people who don't read or don't read well. I mean, the concept "pay it forward" is great, but the book itself - horrible.

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Nov 30, 2010 Angela rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I loved the idea of this book. The thought that as simple an idea as paying it forward rather than paying someone back is wonderful; if only this could happen. Trevor is a great character but I found it difficult to relate to the others in the book although Catherine Ryan Hyde had attempted to portray them in detail. I think the biggest problem I had with the book was the style in which it was written. I found myself having to re-read the dialogue at times to make sense of it; I felt also that i...more

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Nov 20, 2012 Karina1 rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan is a beautifully written book from the perspective of St. Clair, Arlene, Trevor and other characters. The story starts out with St. Clair, Social Studies teacher, and his extra credit assignment: Come up with a plan to change the world for the better, and do it. Twelve –year-old Trevor, one of his students, comes up with an extraordinary idea that can potentially change everyone around the world.

The book was told from different perspectives. At first this was co...more

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I'm the author of 18 published and forthcoming books.

My newest releases are Don’t Let Me Go, Jumpstart the World , When I Found You and Second Hand Heart. Forthcoming is and When You Were Older (Transworld UK, Spring 2012).

Newer novels are Becoming Chloe, Love in the Present Tense, The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance, Chasing Windmills The Day I Killed James, and Diary of a Witness.

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