# Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

**Author:** Marjane Satrapi
**Grade range:** Grades 9–12
**Age range:** 14–18
**First published:** 2000
**Page count:** 160
**Genre:** Graphic Memoir
**ISBN-13:** `9780375714573`
**ISBN-10:** `037571457X`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/persepolis
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Marjane Satrapi's black-and-white graphic memoir of growing up in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War. Widely assigned in 9th-12th grade world literature, history, and graphic-novel-as-literature units; cited in Common Core Appendix B as an informational text exemplar.

## Themes

- revolution
- coming of age
- religion
- identity
- war

## Content notes

- war violence
- political imprisonment
- execution

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 14+

## Where this book is assigned

### AP English Literature & Composition

- **recommended** · 11th grade — [source: AP Lit representative text](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition)
- **recommended** · 12th grade — [source: AP Lit representative text](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-english-literature-and-composition)

## Banned / challenged record

Documented removals or formal challenges in at least one school district in 2 states: IL, TX. Source: [PEN America's Index of School Book Bans](https://pen.org/banned-book-list/) 2022-2024.

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