The Beast Reveiw

In The Beast by Walter Dean Myers, a teenager from Harlem goes to a rich, white school named Wallingford Academy. He leaves his hometown to learn in a really good school. Meanwhile, his girlfriend Gabi, was left alone. When his winter vacation came, he went back to Harlem to visit everybody. He noticed everything turned different. Including Gabi. She was in trouble. Her mother was very sick and she had a blind grandfather on her hands. Also, Rafael, her brother, was thought to be gangbanging. Somehow Spoon found that Gabi was on drugs. When her mother died, Gabi had a nervous breakdown. She's been missing for three days. With the help on Monica, another drug addict, they found Gabi in a dope house. He tried to help her and brought her to her house.

Walter Dean Myers makes the story end happily. Gabi quit drugs, Spoon graduated Wallingford, Gabi took a job, but Rafe was also thought to be taking drugs.