October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Lesléa Newman

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard

Lesléa Newman

missing duration info Add in missing duration information first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ poetry young adult emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was lured from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left to die. Gay Awareness Week was beginning at the Univ...

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emotional 96%
sad 88%
reflective 72%
dark 28%
informative 20%
challenging 16%
inspiring 8%
tense 8%
hopeful 4%

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medium 22%
slow 16%

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