Grade level-7.5
Lexile 630
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 of 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.
Lexile 630
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 of 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.