"The thing about Trevor was that he was just like everybody else, except for the part of him that wasn't." When twelve-year-old Trevor accepts his social-studies teacher's assignment to come up with a plan to change the world, his idea is simple. Do a good deed for three people and ask them each to "pay it forward" to three others who need help. He imagines a vast movement of kindness and goodwill spreading beyond his small California town and to the world. When changes start to happen, including an inexplicable national drop in crime rates, a journalist discovers Trevor is the source for the random acts of kindness that are making a difference. Word spreads and Trevor is invited to Washington to meet the president, and he becomes a national hero. But though Trevor is determined to see the good in everyone, the world may not be as kind. This young readers edition of Catherine Ryan Hyde's adult novel Pay It Forward is rewritten for a middle-grade audience. The original Pay It Forward has become a world-wide sensation that inspired the Pay It Forward movement and has changed lives around the world.