New York Times
College Board
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
Details
Pages
288
Word Count
74218
Lexile
1010L
AR
5.9
Grade Level
G9 - G10
Genre
Nonfiction Memoir
Summary
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family.
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