{"product_id":"book-acs3","title":"Pay It Forward","description":" \u003cp\u003eCatherine Ryan Hyde's international sensation, \u003ci\u003ePay It Forward\u003c\/i\u003e, is the moving story of Trevor McKinney, a twelve-year-old boy who accepts his social studies teacher's challenge to come up with a plan to change the world. Trevor's idea is simple: Do a good deed for three people and ask them to \"pay it forward\" to three others who need help. He envisions a vast movement of kindness and goodwill spreading beyond his small California town and across the world. However, when Jerry, a bum to whom Trevor gave his allowance, returns to a life of dissolution, the project seems valuable only as a lesson on the dark side of human nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut ultimately Trevor is vindicated. At first people don't know how to explain the odd dip in crime rates across the nation, but a journalist with a story of his own tracks down the source of the epidemic of random acts of kindness and makes Trevor a celebrity. Yet Trevor has problems closer to home: he wants his pretty, hardworking mother to see the softer side of his beloved teacher, Reuben St. Clair, a scarred Vietnam veteran who seems to come alive only when he's in front of his class.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone who has ever despaired of one person's ability to effect change will rejoice in Trevor's courage and his determination to see the good in everyone.\u003cspan rel=\"pastemarkerend\" id=\"pastemarkerend38479\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347912663344,"sku":"BDacs3","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/300190-acs3-Square.jpg?v=1734210068","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-acs3","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}