October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard
by Newman, Lesléa
Stonewall Book Award/HonorCriminalLGBTQIA+ PeopleNovels in Verse12Rainbow ListYALSA Best Fiction for Young AdultsALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound
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AR Book Level
5.2
AR Points
1
Word Count
8,378
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
154102 EN
About this book
This book relates from various points of view the 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.