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.

It all started with the social studies teacher's extra-credit project: Think of an idea for world change, and put it into action. Whilst this proved a little ambitious for most of his classmates, twelve-year-old Trevor thought he would start by doing something good for three people. But instead of paying him back, he would ask them to "pay it forward" by doing a favour for thre...(展开全部)

An inspiring novel about an optimistic twelve-year-old who changes the world with a social studies project.

What if every person in the world do the other three would be a favor - and if those three people would then pass back a favor to three other ... and so on would be: Until the world to another? - Trevor, a boy, believes in the goodness of man, and fulfilled his hope of a better world, in an overpowering way.

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul...(展开全部)

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul...(展开全部)

Suddenly everyone in the world loses consciousness for two minutes. Planes fall from the sky, there are millions of car crashes, millions die. And when everyone comes round they have had a glimpse of their life in the future. When it awakes the world must live with the knowledge of what is to come. Some saw themselves in new relationships, some saw exciting new technologies, so...(展开全部)

Suddenly everyone in the world loses consciousness for two minutes. Planes fall from the sky, there are millions of car crashes, millions die. And when everyone comes round they have had a glimpse of their life in the future. When it awakes the world must live with the knowledge of what is to come. Some saw themselves in new relationships, some saw exciting new technologies, so...(展开全部)

切斯特•海姆斯（Chester Himes，1909—1989） 著名黑人侦探小说家，生于美国密苏里州的杰斐逊城。一九二八年的冬天，他因持枪抢劫被判入狱，刑期二十年。服刑期间，海姆斯开始创作短篇小说。一九五八年创作的侦探小说处女作获法国警探小说文学奖大奖。他的小说中充斥着暴力、血腥与色情，大都涉及种族问题，并有多部作品被改编成电影。 海姆斯对冷硬派推理小说产生了深远影响，为纪念他，特在美国设立了切斯特•海姆斯侦探小说奖（Chester Himes Mystery Awards），专授给美国黑人侦探小说作家。

作者 彼得·西斯（Peter Sis），美国著名艺术家，身兼画家、作家、插画家、设计师、电影导演；曾荣获麦克阿瑟荣誉奖章、柏林电影节金熊奖、凯迪克奖、纽伯瑞奖、美国插画家协会金奖、《纽约时报》书评周刊年度最佳儿童图书奖……加诸彼得·西斯身上的荣誉，难以计数。仅以《纽约时报》书 评周刊年度最佳图画书而论，二十年中他竟“霸占”了三分之一强，《玛德琳卡》《玛德琳卡的狗》《生命之树》《飞行员与小王子》四次为他带来 “年度最佳儿童图书”的荣誉。2012年，彼得·西斯荣获得国际安徒生插画奖。 译者 柳漾，新浪微博“柳树在说话”，儿童文学工作者。本职编辑，业余时间喜欢与书打交道，写书评、做翻译，翻译的作品有图画书《和朋友一起想办法》《爱打嗝的斑马》《不会唱歌的小鸟》《青蛙王子变形记》《走开，大黑兔！》《罗丝的花园》《北极星》《不来梅的音乐家》《玛德琳过圣诞》《动物...(展开全部)