2005, ISBN: 9780791465943

Paperback. Very Good., 3, Harlequin. Very Good-. 1988. Paperback. 037311107X . Harlequin Presents; Vol. 1107; 6 oz.; 187 pages; VG- PB Harlequin Presents #1107 slight spine lean/aged o/w… Mehr…

Paperback. Very Good., 3, Harlequin. Very Good-. 1988. Paperback. 037311107X . Harlequin Presents; Vol. 1107; 6 oz.; 187 pages; VG- PB Harlequin Presents #1107 slight spine lean/aged o/w very clean/tight. How had life gotten so crazy? One day Mallory was an efficient small-town home economics teacher, comfortably dating the school principal. The next she was caught in a mad whirl-juggling two suitors; battling hitherto unknown feelings of jealousy and resentment; watching in faint horror as a beautiful blonde captivated her scholarly widowed father; and working into the wee hours rewriting a book to the tune called by C. Duncan Adams, a brilliant and fat too attractive sociologist. ., Harlequin, 1988, 3, Audioworks, 02/01/00 12:00 AM. Audio Cassette. Very Good. 0671784706 Amazon Review Catherine Ryan Hyde's Pay It Forward takes as its premise the bumper-sticker phrase "Think Globally, Act Locally" and builds a novel around it. The hero of her story is young Trevor McKinney, a 12-year-old whose imagination is sparked by an extra-credit assignment in Social Studies: "Think of an idea for world change, and put it into action." Trevor's idea is deceptively simple: do a good deed for three people, and in exchange, ask each of them to "pay it forward" to three more. "So nine people get helped. Then those people have to do twenty-seven.... Then it sort of spreads out." Trevor's early attempts to get his project off the ground seem to end in failure: a junkie he befriends ends up back in jail; an elderly woman whose garden he tends dies unexpectedly. But even after the boy has given up on his plan, his acts of kindness bear unexpected fruit, and soon an entire movement is underway and spreading across America. Trevor, meanwhile, could use a little help himself. His father walked out on the family, and his mother, Arlene, is fighting an uphill battle with alcoholism, poor judgment in men, and despair. When the boy's new Social Studies teacher, Reuben St. Clair, arrives on the scene, Trevor sees in him not only a source of inspiration for how to change the world, but also the means of altering his mother's life. Yet Reuben has his own set of problems. Horribly scarred in Vietnam, he is reluctant to open himself up to the possibility of rejection--or love. Indeed, the relationship between Arlene and Reuben is central to the novel as these two damaged people learn to "pay forward" the trust and affection Trevor has given them. Hyde tells her tale from many different perspectives, using letters, diary entries, and first- and third-person narratives from the various people whose lives Trevor's project touches. Jerry Busconi, for example, the addict Trevor tried to help, one night finds himself talking a young woman out of jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge: I'm a junkie, Charlotte. I'm always gonna be a junkie. I ain't never gonna be no fine, upstanding citizen. But then I thought, hell. Just pay it forward anyway. Kid tried to help me. Okay, it didn't work. Still, I'm trying to help you. Maybe you'll jump. I don't know. But I tried, right? But let me tell you one thing. I woke up one morning and somebody gave me a chance. Just outta nowhere. It was like a miracle. Now, how do you know that won't happen to you tomorrow? Pay It Forward is reminiscent of Frank Capra's classic It's a Wonderful Life. Like the film, this novel has a steely core of gritty reality beneath its optimism: yes, one person can make a difference, can help to make the world a better place, but sickness, pain, heartache, and tragedy will still always be a part of the human condition. If at times Hyde stumbles a bit while negotiating the razor-thin line between honest feeling and sentimentality, it's generally not for long. And the occasional lapse into artificially colored emotion can be forgiven when weighed against the courage it takes to write so unabashedly hopeful a story in such cynical times. --Sheila Bright --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly An ordinary boy engineers a secular miracle in Hyde's (Funerals for Horses) winning second novel, set in small-town 1990s California. Twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney, the son of Arlene, a single mom working two jobs, and Ricky, a deadbeat absentee dad, does not seem well-positioned to revolutionize the world. But when Trevor's social studies teacher, Reuben St. Clair, gives the class an extra-credit assignment, challenging his students to design a plan to change society, Trevor decides to start a goodwill chain. To begin, he helps out three people, telling each of them that instead of paying him back, they must "pay it forward" by helping three others. At first, nothing seems to work out as planned, not even Trevor's attempt to bring Arlene and Reuben together. Granted, Trevor's mother and his teacher are an unlike, Audioworks, 02/01/00 12:00 AM, 3, Needham, MA, Silver Burdett Ginn. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, softcover, VG ex classroom copy with teacher's name on endpaper. 154p. Fourteen-year-old Cloyd was trouble. Trouble to himself and everyone else. He'd grown up without his parents, without schooling, half-wild and alone in remote Utah canyons. Sent by his tribe to a group home for Indian boys, his feeling of isolation turns to desperation-and even more trouble. But high in the majestic mountains of Colorado where Cloyd is taken to live with an old rancher, he finds a small carved turquoise bear in an Indian burial cave. Secretly renaming himself Lone Bear, Cloyd calls upon the strength of his ancient ancestors-first to do battle with his own hostilities, but finally to discover the magic power of an old man's love, and the secrets of living in a world he has just begun to understand., Needham, MA, Silver Burdett Ginn, 3, State University of New York Pre, 2005-11. Paperback. Very Good. 0.7000 8.9000 6.0000. Cover and edges may have some wear., State University of New York Pre, 2005-11, 3<

ISBN: 9780791465943

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2009, ISBN: 9780791465943

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UsedVeryGood. Ships Quickly - Satisfaction Guaranteed! Great shape with a remainder mark., 0, Routledge, 2000. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:1857289099, Routledge, 2000, 0, Wash, D.C.: The Aspen Institute, 2009. 98pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Paperback. New., The Aspen Institute, 2009, 6, State University of New York Pre, 2005-11. Paperback. Very Good. 0.7000 8.9000 6.0000. Cover and edges may have some wear., State University of New York Pre, 2005-11, 3<

ISBN: 9780791465943

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