Pay It Forward

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Summary: We Can Make The World A Whole Lot Brighter!!!
Review: This was my #1 most favorite book, that I've ever read. I'm just jealous that I didn't come up with this idea and write this book.

Trevor is a 12 year old 'good' boy who lives with his
mother. His Jr.High School social studies class has an assignment for extra credit to change the world, for the better, in some way. That's when Trevor gets the excellent idea to start innumerable pyramids of doing good deeds.

Trevor's teacher is one the three people that he wants to do a good deed for. Disfigured in the Viet Nam war,
Mr.St.Clair is single too, and I don't think I need to explain where this is leading to.

When one person dies and another ends up in jail, the
poor boy thinks his project was a complete failure. Little does
he know that his idea is about to go worldwide.


This was definitely the best book I've ever read. I recommend everyone to read it. I wish I could give it 10 stars. Do yourself a favor and read this book:)



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Summary: Not A Placebo! Restore Your Faith in the Good of People...
Review: Wow! Since I read this book, I've been confined to talking only about IT! Hyde has put on paper what has thus far only been effectively expressed on film. Unlike any other American-centric author, Hyde makes her optimistic view of our country believable. What makes "Pay it Forward" very real is Hyde's acknowledgement of the errors of human beings. What makes this work truly fantastic is proof that America can be made smaller -- truly village-like -- by kindness. She doesn't ask for "random" kindness, but for good deeds to be "paid forward," not back, for other acts of kindness. Catherine Ryan Hyde shows that you, me, anyone can perform mammoth acts for others, without losing what matters; and by doing so, the reader learns, we can change the world (and thereby gain so much more). I sincerely believe that this one book, or the point that Hyde makes, can improve the nature of day-to-day relations between Americans, country-wide, city by city.