The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
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- Grade
- 9-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
Year Published 2004
Word Count 74,218
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1010L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 105049, 12 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Homeless persons--Family relationships--New York (State)--New York
- Dysfunctional families--United States--Case studies
- West Virginia
- Poor
- Homeless persons
- Children of alcoholics
- Poor--West Virginia--Welch--Biography
- Problem families
- Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers
- Family & Relationships | General
- Family relationships
- Welch
- Children of alcoholics--United States--Biography
- Walls, Jeannette
- United States
- New York
- Dysfunctional families--West Virginia--Welch--Case studies
- New York (State)
- Children of alcoholics--West Virginia--Welch--Biography
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- Most Challenged Books of 2012
- Banned and Challenged Books of the 2010s
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Alex Awards, 1998-2025
Winner, 2006
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