The great green beast has eaten so many people it's become wedged in a mountain. There's only one boy left in the village - and he decides to kill the beast! Little does he know that this will be the first of his battles - and there's much more fighting to come! Fun African myth. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.

 

. This book is part of a HiLo reading scheme, combining high interest relative to the required reading skill.

There are 72 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Barrington Stoke Ltd .

Maggie Pearson's first novel, Owl Light, was shortlisted for the WH Smith Mind-boggling Book Award, and Shadow of the Beast was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.