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The Beast
By Myers, Walter Dean
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-43936-841-4
- Publisher
- Scholastic
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2003
Gr 8-Up Anthony "Spoon" Witherspoon, 17, leaves Harlem, and his girl, Gabi, to spend his senior year at Wallingford Academy in Connecticut, with the hope that he will get into an Ivy League college. While he adjusts to prep-school life and navigates the racial and social divides of the haves and the want-to-haves, Gabi's life comes undone. Her mother is dying, her younger brother may be running with a gang, and her blind grandfather has come to stay. When Spoon comes home for Christmas, Ga...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on November 1, 2003
Returning home to Harlem for Christmas after his first semester away at a posh Connecticut prep school, Anthony Witherspoon ("Spoon") finds that everything—his parents, his girlfriend Gabi, his neighborhood—seems different. "Five months was not that long, but it was long enough to shift perspective, I thought, to discover new shadings, and to question ol...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
