Pay It Forward

  • Author: Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • Narrator: William Dufris
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 8:01:45
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Synopsis

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. This anniversary edition includes a new introduction by the author. 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.

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

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.

Chapters

  • PayItForward 21 Chapter21

    Duration: 14min
  • PayItForward 22 Chapter22

    Duration: 14min
  • PayItForward 23 Chapter23

    Duration: 15min
  • PayItForward 24 Chapter24

    Duration: 11min
  • PayItForward 25 Chapter25

    Duration: 15min
  • PayItForward 26 Chapter26

    Duration: 14min
  • PayItForward 27 Chapter27

    Duration: 14min
  • PayItForward 28 Chapter28

    Duration: 16min
  • PayItForward 29 Chapter29

    Duration: 09min
  • PayItForward 30 Chapter30

    Duration: 12min
  • PayItForward 31 Chapter31

    Duration: 08min
  • PayItForward 32 Chapter32

    Duration: 11min
  • PayItForward 33 Chapter33

    Duration: 09min
  • PayItForward 34 Epilogue

    Duration: 12min
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