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Persepolis is the story, in graphic novel form, of Marjane Satrapi's coming of age in post-revolution Iran.
The book begins with a vivid description of the sea, a clifftop view and the author, Matt Haig, thinking about whether to die. These are viscerally written, painful scenes and thankfully Haig changes his mind and turns back from the edge.
Chronicling the development of the Poetry Academy at El Sol, a whole school poetry program taking place at a ground breaking, award winning dual language immersion charter school in one of the most vulnerable communities in the U.S., The Poets of El Sol demonstrates poetry's power to expand the h