Persepolis

Sartrapi, M. (2004). Persepolis. NY: Pantheon.  This book is about a young girl named Mary Jane living in Iran.  Mary Jane saw a lot as a little girl living in a world of turmoil.  Mainly this book is part 1 of 2.  This book mainly deals with Mary Jane being a young girl seeing different things that an average young girl in America wouldn't witness.  The author depicts the political war in Iran during 1979.  Mary Jane is religious and thinks she is last prophet sent by God.  Mary Jane rebels a lot at school and she is soon sent to Austria to go to school.  This is where part 2 of the series will start.  This is a great historical fiction for high school age students.   Teachers can use the text for historical purposes.  Mary Jane had conventional morality because she followed right or wrong.  But after all the turmoil she became more postconventional in her moral beliefs.