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Genre/Form: | Autobiography Autobiographies Biographies Case studies Young adult non-fiction Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Walls, Jeannette. Glass castle. New York : Scribner, ©2005 (OCoLC)651836734 |
Named Person: | Jeannette Walls; Jeannette Walls; Jeannette Walls; Jeannette Walls |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeannette Walls |
ISBN: | 0743247531 9780743247535 0739458213 9780739458211 9780743247542 074324754X 9781439156964 1439156964 9781501171581 1501171585 |
OCLC Number: | 56590629 |
Awards: | Books for a Better Life Inspirational Memoir, 2005. ALA Notable Books, 2006. Alex Awards, 2006. Christopher Awards, 2006. Book Sense Book of the Year Award Honor Book, 2006. Green Mountain Book Award Nominee, 2008. Evergreen Young Adult Book Award Nominee, 2008. |
Description: | 288 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | A woman on the street -- The desert -- Welch -- New York City -- Thanksgiving. |
Responsibility: | Jeannette Walls. |
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The Glass Castle
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I adored this book...has to be in the top 5 books I've ever read. Coming from a poor family of the 50's, I could relate to Jeannette. The book is humorous and almost unbelievable, although I absolutely DO believe it, for I"ve been there. My life wasn't nearly as...
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I adored this book...has to be in the top 5 books I've ever read. Coming from a poor family of the 50's, I could relate to Jeannette. The book is humorous and almost unbelievable, although I absolutely DO believe it, for I"ve been there. My life wasn't nearly as hard as hers, but I've felt the same humiliations and had the same hope that kept her going. Always with a quick, positive response to everything, her mother kept me in stitches. Her father needed help, but he was never abusive. In my estimation, her parents were geniuses and the children followed suit. I would read this book again and have suggested it to my book club. It is a story of an impoverished life, but one that was always full of hope and overcoming difficult circumstances.
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- Walls, Jeannette.
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- Dysfunctional families -- United States -- Case studies.
- Dysfunctional families -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Case studies.
- Poor -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography.
- Homeless persons -- Family relationships -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Homeless persons -- New York (State) -- New York -- Family relationships.
- Walls, Jeannette
- Child of Impaired Parents.
- Family Relations.
- United States.
- Children of alcoholics.
- Dysfunctional families.
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- New York (State) -- New York.
- West Virginia -- Welch.
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