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Additional authors

1. Candlewick Press, publisher.

Description

1. xi, 111 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

1. 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.
2. A poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard's murder on the world, toldt hrough a cycle of 68 poems.

Alternative title

1. October morning : a song for Matthew Shepard
2. Song for Matthew Shepard

Subject

1. Shepard, Matthew, 1976-1998 > Fiction
2. Shepard, Matthew, 1976-1998
3. Murder > Fiction
4. Gay people > Crimes against > Fiction
5. Hate crimes > Fiction
6. JUVENILE NONFICTION > Poetry > General
7. JUVENILE NONFICTION > Social Issues > Homosexuality
8. JUVENILE NONFICTION > Law & Crime
9. Gays > Crimes against
10. Hate crimes
11. Murder
12. Novels in verse
13. Laramie (Wyo.) > Fiction
14. Wyoming > Laramie

Genre/Form

1. Novels in verse.
2. Fiction.
3. Juvenile works.

Contents

1. Introduction -- Prologue: The fence (before). -- Part one: 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.
2. Part two: 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). -- Epilogue: Pilgrimage. -- Afterword: Imagine. -- Notes -- Explanation of poetic forms -- Resources.

Call number

1. JFE 13-4510

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Awards (note)

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

Author

1. Newman, Lesléa, author.

Title

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

Publisher

1. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2012.

Copyright date

1. ©2012

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Awards

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

Added author

1. Candlewick Press, publisher.

LCCN

1. 2011048358

Other standard identifier

1. 9780763658076

ISBN

1. 9780763658076 (hardback)
2. 0763658073 (hardback)

Research call number

1. JFE 13-4510