# I Am the Cheese

**Author:** Robert Cormier
**Grade range:** Grades 8–12
**First published:** 1977
**Page count:** 224
**Genre:** Young Adult Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780440940609`
**ISBN-10:** `0440940605`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/i-am-the-cheese
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## Themes

- identity
- government power
- memory
- paranoia
- family secrets

## Content notes

- psychological distress

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