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Newman, Lesléa, author.

October mourning : a song for Matthew Shepard / Lesléa Newman.

First edition.

Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2012.

©2012

xi, 111 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.

A poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard's murder on the world, told through a cycle of 68 poems.

Shepard, Matthew, 1976-1998.

Murder -- Poetry.

Gays -- Crimes against -- Poetry.

Hate crimes -- Poetry.

Murder -- Fiction.

Gay people -- Fiction.

Hate crimes -- Fiction.

Laramie (Wyo.) -- Poetry.

Laramie (Wyo.) -- Fiction.

Young adult literature.

Novels in verse.

Poetry.

Candlewick Press, publisher.

October morning : a song for Matthew Shepard

Song for Matthew Shepard

Includes bibliographical references.

Accelerated Reader UG 5.2 1.

Reading Counts High School 6.2 6.

Stonewall Book Awards (Honor Book in Children's & Young Adult Literature), 2013

The fence (before). -- Outnnumbered -- Recipe for disaster -- Something snapped -- Raising awareness -- Every mother's plea -- The truck -- Road rage -- A sorry state -- Signs of trouble -- The clothesline -- The pistol -- Witness -- The fence (that night) -- What you can do in eighteen hours -- Stars -- The wind -- The does -- Where is my boy? -- The biker -- The patrol officer's report -- The doctor -- Housekeeper, ICU -- Lame excuse -- How to have the worst day of your life -- The journalist -- Vigil : candles in the wind -- The armbands -- Scared to death -- Heartfelt apology -- October 12, 1998 -- Tree -- Class photo : me in the middle, or, "What will you be when you grow up?" -- Then and now -- Thirteen ways of looking at Matthew -- The fence (one week later) -- Stand by your man -- Accessory -- Officer of the court -- His shoes -- The frat boys -- The songwriter -- The drag queen -- The cop -- The bartender -- Let's say -- The student -- A father -- A mother -- A chorus of parents -- The church lady -- A protestor -- An angel -- Jury selection -- The prosecutor's job -- The defense's job -- Don't flatter yourself -- Sorry boy -- Logic problem -- Verdict -- Mercy -- What twenty bucks could get you in 1998 -- Wounded -- This is the hand -- Once upon a time -- The fence (after). -- Pilgrimage. -- Imagine. --

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