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Newman, Leslea.
OCTOBER MOURNING : A SONG FOR MATTHEW SHEPARD
Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2012
IL YA
ISBN 0763658073

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 A fence. A doe. A housekeeper in the ICU. Newman effectively uses different points of view and different poetic forms to give voice to the night Matthew Shepard was murdered. Shepard was a gay 21 year old University of Wyoming college student left a Laramie bar with two males. They beat him, tied him to a fence and left him to die. Matthew wasn’t discovered until 18 hours later. He was taken to a hospital, but never regained consciousness. He died five days later.   (South Carolina Young Adult Book Award, 2015,   Prepared by: Kim Hudson, Parent)

SUBJECTS:     Shepard, Matthew, -1998 -- Fiction.
                        Murder -- Fiction.
                        Gays -- Fiction.
                        Hate crimes -- Fiction.
                        Laramie (Wyo.) -- Fiction.
                        Novels in verse.

 
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