Beast, The

By Walter Dean Myers

Book Overview

An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover. Seventen-year-old Anthony... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439368413
• ISBN13: 9780439368414
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

The Beast Book Review

When I first glanced at this book, I thought it was about some mythical beast from the land of enchantment or something like that. But never judge a book by its cover. The name doesn't really have anything to do with the book. The only thing that I can think of is that it is referring to drugs, which is a large part of this book. Anthony Witherspoon left the hood to go to the academy. When he got back everything was different: His girlfriend (Gabi) was using, she said she was only skin surfing but who knows what she was really doing. Things get worse when her mother dies. Gabi goes missing and no one knows what will happen to her. Gabi's brother started gangbanging, his friend Clara got pregnant and his best friend dropped out of school. This book is about Anthony's struggle with life in New York City. Will he help his friends or will he end up just like them? Read the book to find out, cause I ain't telling you nothing.

The Beast

This is one of the best books I have ever read. It tells you about real things that happen in real life. You can also make alot of connections to it.

Returning To These Mean Streets

Book Review Title: The Beast Author: Walter D. Myers ISBN: 0-06-440731-4 Returning To These Mean Streets Have you ever went away and then came back to a place that you know so well but are so confused about it all? Or had someone that you were really close to do the most self destructive thing? When I first wanted to read this book it was right after my teacher Mrs. Lyons gave her book talk about it. When she read some parts from it I automatically fell in love with it. This book is about a guy named Anthony Spoon who went away to boarding school and came back to Harlem, a place that he was raised that wasn't so bad when he left but was so chaotic when he returned. He comes home from school to be a mentor and to be confused about the relationship between him and his girlfriend Gabi. Gabi was a nice poet who Anthony fell in love with before he left to school. He thought she had it all. Brains, beauty, and street smarts. But just like most people she got sucked into the game of life and got rapped up in the mean streets. I think that this book was a spectacular book. It talked about the real things that go on in life and that's the kind of books that I like to read. Although I didn't quite agree with choices that Anthony made it was still a great joy to read this. I feel that if Anthony would stay with someone it should be Chanelle (another character in the book that he tends to lust about). I also don't feel that the ending of the book fit the criteria of the book. I thought that it would be a real eye opener or a great cliff hanger. Some things to know about the author Walter Dean Myers are: he was the first winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, a National Book Award, has written a lot of books about teen struggles, and helped establish the Walter Dean Myers publishing institute. The theme in this book is that "EVEN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE TO THE MOST DISRTUCTIVE THINGS." Since the characters in this book do the most destructive things I felt that this theme fit the story best. A quote from the book that I really found interesting was the quote that is on the back of the book. "It was funny. I had been away for only a few months from the place I had spent almost all my life. And suddenly it was ahead of me, like a shadow on the cracked concrete sidewalk mimicking my every move. During reading this book I made a lot of connnections. One connection that I made was a prediction. I predicted that Anthony would break up with Gabi. I also made a t-s connection. I connected to the part where Anthony had said that he gets butterflies in his stomach when he gets around Gabi. I can realte to this because when I really liked someone I always got butterflies in my stomach whenever I got around this boy. I recommend this book to any teen ager that loves an interesting book about real-life happenings and things that really can be tr

Great Story But It's Too Short

"The Beast", along with "Monster" and "Scorpions" is another masterwork of Walter Dean Myers, one of the greatest writers of our time. The story is about a college freshman who leaves his home in the projects of Harlem and his poet/girlfriend Gabi, for college. When he returns to Harlem for Christmas break he finds everything different, especially Gabi who is thinner and doesn't talk much anymore. Spoon(the college kid) discovers that Gabi's using drugs and the book has to do with the battle to get his girlfriend away from the beast. This book is amazing. There are unique characters like Gabi's grandfather and Gabi's little brother who runs with gangs. The one thing I would've liked is if it would've given more detail to Gabi and her brother getting cleaned. Myers kind've skips through really fast so you don't really see the emotion of quitting drugs. But this is still an amazing book for all readers. I recommend you read all his books and then read some of Donald Goines novels if you're ready for them. "The Beast"= A+

Best book ive ever read

I thought it was a touching story of young love, my breath was pulled right out of me when i read the ending. i loved it till the last page, best book ive ever read!