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October mourning : a song for Matthew Shepard

Newman, Lesléa. (Author).

Summary: Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.

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  • ISBN: 9780763658076 (hbk.)
  • ISBN: 0763658073 (hbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    xv, 111 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: Somerville, MA : Candlewick, [2012]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-111).
Awards Note:
Stonewall Honor Book, 2013
Eliot Rosewater Nominee, 2014-2015.
Subject: Shepard, Matthew 1976-1998 Juvenile poetry
Shepard, Matthew 1976-1998 Juvenile fiction
Shepard, Matthew 1976-1998 Poetry
Murder Juvenile poetry
Murder Juvenile fiction
Gays Crimes against Juvenile poetry
Hate crimes Juvenile poetry
Murder Poetry
Gays Crimes against Poetry
Hate crimes Poetry
Novels in verse
Laramie (Wyo.) Juvenile poetry
Laramie (Wyo.) Poetry
Genre: Novels in verse.
Young Adult fiction.
Young adult fiction.

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Lesléa Newman is the author of more than seventy books for children and adults, including the groundbreaking children's classic Heather Has Two Mommies. She has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Foundation. She lives in Massachusetts.


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