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Published
2012
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Subgenre
Historical
Section
Young Adult

October Mourning

Lesléa Newman

A sequence of poems in many voices about the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard.

  • Stonewall Honor 2013
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Themes

LGBTQ+Real lives & historyGrief & loss

Mood

Feels reflective, sad.

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