*This review features a book not available in the Longfellow Library, but nonetheless enjoyed by a Longfellow student!*
Jeannette Walls lives with her mom, dad, sister and brother, although they don’t have a rooted home. They are always moving during the night, “the skedaddle” as her dad calls it. Jeannette learns how to be her own parent. When she was three, she was cooking hot dogs herself, she burns the side of her torso, but she’s okay. Her dad teaches her not to run from fear, but to face it, unless it’s the police. As she grows, her family falls apart.
The Glass Castle: A Memoir is an incredible novel about family, struggle and surviving. One thing I liked about this book was how she writes the book in stories about her life, not in chapters. You might enjoy this book if you like books about struggle and making it to the end.
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I think this is a great book that teaches about the struggle of a young girl and her father. I recommend this book to mature readers aged 11-99. She learns to live with her drunk father, and crazy mother. Her only support are her siblings. She escapes to New York only to have her father and mother come tagging behind. While she and her brother and sister thrive in New York, her parents live in abandoned buildings as homeless.
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