The Glass Castle
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A tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave the author the fiery determination to carve out a successful life on her own terms.
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how... more
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how... more
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Rankings by Category
The Glass Castle is ranked in the following categories:
- #5 in 10th Grade
- #25 in 11th Grade
- #54 in 12-Year-Old
- #14 in 12th Grade
- #13 in 14-Year-Old
- #5 in 15-Year-Old
- #25 in 16-Year-Old
- #14 in 17-Year-Old
- #14 in 18-Year-Old
- #77 in 21st Century
- #55 in 7th Grade
- #14 in 9th Grade
- #11 in AA
- #26 in Abuse
- #6 in Addiction
- #44 in Adult
- #33 in Adulting
- #29 in Americana
- #2 in Annotations
- #11 in Author
- #4 in Author Biography
- #6 in Autobiography
- #52 in Beautiful
- #13 in Bestseller
- #18 in Biography
- #6 in Book Club
- #9 in Brooklyn
- #11 in Charisma
- #50 in Class
- #39 in Coming Of Age
- #23 in Controversial
- #15 in Dramatic
- #32 in Entertaining
- #32 in Entertainment
- #42 in Factual
- #5 in Family
- #9 in Five
- #1 in Glass
- #10 in Good Read
- #17 in Grace
- #52 in Growing Up
- #15 in Holiday Reading
- #5 in Hope
- #41 in Human Nature
- #53 in Influential
- #28 in Inspiring
- #77 in Interesting
- #5 in Journalists
- #80 in Life
- #62 in Life Changing
- #2 in Memoir
- #61 in Mental Health
- #9 in Mom
- #26 in New York
- #24 in New York City
- #20 in Nonfiction
- #86 in Oprah
- #3 in Pediatrics
- #29 in Perspective
- #36 in Popular
- #3 in Poverty
- #8 in Real Life
- #32 in Recent
- #45 in Recommended
- #41 in Reference
- #23 in Relationships
- #20 in Resilience
- #48 in Sad
- #36 in Scribd
- #53 in Self Discovery
- #40 in Social
- #14 in Social Work
- #16 in Strong Women
- #20 in Summer Reading
- #16 in Survival
- #49 in Thought-Provoking
- #67 in To-Read
- #33 in Top Ten
- #32 in Trauma
- #5 in True Stories
- #6 in True Story
- #9 in Used
- #39 in Women
- #3 in Writers
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