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Pay It Forward

by Catherine Ryan Hyde

A classroom challenge with a widening reach

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A classroom challenge with a widening reach

Trevor McKinney’s extra-credit assignment asks him to imagine how one good deed might lead to help for others. His plan—to assist three people and ask each to pass the kindness along to three more—connects an individual school project with questions of community and collective action. Set in a small California town, the novel frames goodwill as something that can spread through ordinary acts. This middle grade edition includes an author’s note and curriculum guide, giving the story additional material for discussion and classroom use.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Middle grade readers interested in stories about kindness and community.
  • Book clubs or classrooms looking for fiction that can prompt discussion about values and helping others.
  • Readers who enjoy stories built around a young person’s school assignment and its wider consequences.

Themes

KindnessCommunityCollective actionValues and virtues

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Book overview

The internationally bestselling book that inspired the Pay It Forward movement is now available in a middle grade edition.

Pay It Forward 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" (Kirkus Reviews), Trevor's actions change his community forever.

This middle grade edition of Pay It Forward 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.
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