October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard - ESSENTIAL

Newman, Leslea October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard, 85 p. Candlewick, 2012.  $16.  Violence: G (stated, not graphic); Language: R (0 'f', 15+ swears, many gay slurs); Mature Content: PG-13 (one mention).  POETRY

Through simple, evocative poems, Leslea Newman has written an elegy for Matthew Shepard, the Wyoming college student who was beaten, tied to a fence, and left for dead in 1998.  Through created perspectives from wide ranging characters, human, animal and inanimate, Newman will make you cry as you read.  Every high school student, every adult should have to read this - should want to read this.

HS, ADULT, GIFT - ESSENTIAL.  Cindy, Library Teacher