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//The Beast// by Walter Dean Myers
This book takes place in the city of Harlem. There's a guy named Anthony Witherspoon aka Spoon, and his girlfriend Gabi. Spoon gets accepted to this academy, and him and his girlfriend have to split up for a little bit. While Anthony goes away he meets a few new friends. While Gabbi is stuck in Harlem getting caught up in drugs. When he comes back he goes straight to Gabi's house because he is nervouse about seeing his family. Later on in the book when he goes to see Gabbi when her mom was sick. He walked in her room to find a needle laying on the dresser next to her, and she told him that she was just skin surffing.Then Gabbies mom passes away later and Gabbi came up missing for a couple days. Spoon talks to Gabbis little brother, Raphae and he told Spoon where he might be able to find Gabbie, cause Raphae runs around with gangs. He ends up finding her at a crack house drugged out. He gets her away from it by taking her back to her house. Gabbi gets upset because she didnt have an appropriate dress to wear to her mothers funeral, and spoon gets chinelle to let her borrow a dress.