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  • Pay It Forward

    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Paperback (Simon & Schuster, April 27, 2010)
    The internationally acclaimed sensation that started a movement of giving.When his teacher sets a challenge to his class to come up with a plan to change the world for the better, twelve-year-old Trevor McKinney’s idea is simple: Do a good deed for three people and ask each of them to “pay it forward” to three others who need help. At first, the plan goes awry, and Trevor’s project seems valuable only as a lesson on the dark side of human nature. But then something amazing starts to happen: a vast movement of kindness and goodwill spreading beyond Trevor’s small California town and across the world. Soon a journalist with a story of his own tracks down the source of the epidemic, 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. In the end, Pay It Forward is the story of seemingly ordinary people made extraordinary by the faith of a child—a story so powerful it has inspired people around the world to follow its example in their own lives. Anyone who has ever despaired of one person’s ability to effect change will rejoice in this novel’s triumphant message of hope.
  • Paw It Forward

    Catherine Ryan Hyde, Fedd Kahn

    eBook (Paw It Forward, LLC, Dec. 21, 2015)
    Pay It Forward's best-selling author, Catherine Ryan Hyde, was inspired to write Paw It Forward by her real-life dogs Jessie and Ella. In the book, Ella inspires kids to change the world through kindness by teaching them the concept of Paw It Forward through her adventures. Kids will learn what it means to Pay It Forward and come to understand how powerful kindness can be. Grade-schoolers can read Ella's story on their own, with a friend or an older sibling, and with their mom, dad, or guardian. Everyone who reads this true story will be inspired to join the movement and empowered to change the world!
  • Leaving Blythe River

    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Library Binding (Center Point Pub, Nov. 1, 2016)
    Seventeen-year-old Ethan Underwood is totally unprepared to search for his father in the Blythe River National Wilderness. Not only is he small, scrawny, and skittish but heÂ’s barely speaking to the man after a traumatic betrayal. Yet when his father vanishes from their remote cabin and rangers abandon the rescue mission, suddenly itÂ’s up to Ethan to keep looking. Angry or not, heÂ’s his fatherÂ’s only hope.
  • Paw It Forward

    Catherine Ryan Hyde, Fedd Khan

    Paperback (Paw It Forward, May 31, 2014)
    Pay It Forward's best-selling author, Catherine Ryan Hyde, was inspired to write Paw It Forward by her real-life dogs Jessie and Ella. In the book, Catherine teaches kids the concept of Paw It Forward through Ella's adventures, and Ella inspires kids to change the world through kindness! Kids will learn what it means to Paw It Forward and come to understand how powerful kindness can be. Grade-schoolers can read Ella's story on their own, with a friend or an older sibling, and with their mom, dad, or guardian. Everyone who reads this true story will be inspired to join the movement and empowered to change the world! Learn more at www.pawitforward.net
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  • Diary of a Witness

    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Hardcover (Knopf Books for Young Readers, Aug. 25, 2009)
    One day, something’s going to snap. . . .Ernie doesn't have a lot of friends at school. Just Will. They have stuff in common—like fishing. But more important, they have common enemies: the school jocks, who seem to find bullying just another sport. For the most part, Ernie and Will take life at high school in stride. Until Will has one very bad day. Now nothing is remotely funny. Ernie finds himself a witness—to loss, to humiliation, and to Will’s anger—an anger that’s building each and every moment. Ernie doesn’t want to believe his best friend is changing, but he can’t deny the truth. Soon he has a choice: join or die. Or can he find another way? Praise for The Day I Killed James:“Teens who have experienced crushing rejection or who have laughed at the ardent feelings of a classmate will devour this original, gripping story.”—Kirkus Reviews
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  • Have You Seen Luis Velez?

    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Library Binding (Center Point Pub, Dec. 1, 2019)
    Raymond Jaffe feels like he doesnÂ’t belong. Not with his motherÂ’s new family. Not as a weekend guest with his father and his fatherÂ’s wife. Not at school, where heÂ’s an outcast. After his best friend moves away, Raymond has only two real connections: to the feral cat heÂ’s tamed and to a blind ninety-two-year-old woman in his building whoÂ’s introduced herself with a curious question: Have you seen Luis Velez?
  • The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance

    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Hardcover (Knopf Books for Young Readers, March 27, 2007)
    Cynnie takes care of herself—and more importantly, she takes care of her little brother, Bill. So it doesn't matter that her mom is drunk all the time. Cynnie's got her own life. Cynnie's the one Bill loves more than anyone. Cynnie's the real mother in the house. And if there's one thing she knows for sure, it's that she'll never, ever sink as low as her mother.But when things start to fall apart, Cynnie needs a way to dull the pain.Never say never.This unflinching look at the power of addiction is the story of one girl's fall into darkness—and the strength, trust, and forgiveness it takes to climb back out again.
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  • Pay It Forward

    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Hardcover (Wheeler Pub Inc, Jan. 1, 2001)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When Trevor's social studies teacher gives the class an extra-credit assignment challenging his students to design a plan to change society, Trevor decides to start a goodwill chain.
  • Take Me With You

    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Library Binding (Center Point Pub, Dec. 1, 2014)
    August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his nineteen-year-old son died. Every year heÂ’s spent the summer on the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year means everything. The plan had been to travel there with his son, but now August is making the trip with PhilipÂ’s ashes instead. An unexpected twist of fate lands August with two extra passengers for his journey, two half-orphans with nowhere else to go.
  • Becoming Chloe

    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Hardcover (Knopf Books for Young Readers, March 28, 2006)
    Meet Jordy. He’s on his own in New York City. Nobody to depend on; nobody depending on him. And it’s been working fine.Until this girl comes along. She’s 18 and blond and pretty–her world should be perfect. But she’s seen things no one should ever see in their whole life–the kind of things that break a person. She doesn’t seem broken, though. She seems . . . innocent. Like she doesn’t know a whole lot. Only sometimes she does.The one thing she knows for sure is that the world is an ugly place. Now her life may depend on Jordy proving her wrong. So they hit the road to discover the truth–and there’s no going back from what they find out.This deeply felt, redemptive novel reveals both the dark corners and hidden joys of life’s journey–and the remarkable resilience of the human soul.
  • Pay It Forward

    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Mass Market Paperback (Pocket, Oct. 1, 2000)
    A moving and life-affirming tale of the goodness implicit in everyone follows twelve-year-old Trevor, a boy from a troubled family, who develops a plan as part of a school project that starts people doing good things for each other. Reprint. (A Bel Air Entertainment/Warner Bros. film, directed by Mimi Leder, starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, & Haley Joel Osment) (General Fiction)
  • Pay It Forward

    Catherine Ryan Hyde

    Hardcover (Simon & Schuster, Jan. 1, 1999)
    Pay It Forward is an amazing story. Catherine Ryan Hyde writes from multiple points of view in order to add humor and perspective to an already touching plot. The tale revolves around Trevor, a 12-year-old from California, who accepts an extra-credit challenge from his social studies teacher. He is given a year to create and put into action a plan that will somehow change the world. Trevor comes up with an idea that he refers to as “paying it forward.” His project is based on selflessness and doing good for others, without expecting repayment. The book chronicles the spreading and influence of Trevor’s idea, which initiates a a chain-reaction of human goodwill felt in every part of the world. I was pleasantly surprised because not only is it funny and honest (to a fault), but it confirms that good can be found in every human being. Pay It Forward is well written and eye-opening. Marian Edelman once said, “We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.” This story brings that concept to life in a simple and realistic way.