Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.2
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
8378
Points per Word
0.000119
Page Count
112
Points per Page
0.008929
Description
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.