Stub, the protagonist, lives in Banterville, a town where eleven-year-olds are mandatorily assigned various undesirable and dangerous "adventures." Stub's assignment entails confronting a behemoth simply know as the Beast. Is Stub ready for such this adventure?

The Beast is the thirty-fourth book that has resulted from student work in Kid Scribes, a creative writing and desktop publishing class conducted by Excelsus Foundation at schools and other nonprofits nationwide.