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by Kathryn Reiss

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ISBN: 0152012931
Author: Kathryn Reiss
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers (September 20, 1996)
Language: English
Pages: 352
ePub: 1233 kb
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Rating: 4.7
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Category: Teenager
Subcategory: Literature and Fiction

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Everyone agreed that the heat was uncomfortable already. Weather forecasters predicted that as the summer went on things would become worse. Weather forecasters predicted that as the summer went on things would become worse pring Street. The couple in the big front bedroom had kicked off their sheets and fallen asleep at last, peacefully unaware of the silent activity in the other bedrooms.

Hello Kathryn Reiss are you doing any book signing in the future? . I just finished The Glass House People and it was a great read.

Hello Kathryn Reiss are you doing any book signing in the future? Jessica Mitchell. September 1, 2017 at 5:58 PM. I just finished The Glass House People and it was a great read ank you for your great stories and I'm looking forward to reading more in the future.

KATHRYN REISS is the author of Time Windows, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; The Glass House People; Dreadful Sorry; Pale Phoenix, a finalist for the Edgar Award; as well as PaperQuake: A Puzzle. She lives with her family in Northern California. Библиографические данные.

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The Glass House People. com User, November 22, 2005. Beth doesnt even want to be there she was forced to go by her mother. have been left off there.

Kathryn Reiss was born in Massachusetts, grew up in Ohio, and received . She has written several mystery books in the American Girl series as well as. .The Glass House People (1992). Dreadful Sorry (1993). degrees in English and German from Duke University, and an . in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After college, she lived in Bonn, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, and during this time wrote the first draft of her first novel. She has written several mystery books in the American Girl series as well as Blackthorn Winter (2006) and Murder at Heatherstone Hall (2015), murder mystery novels set in England.

Reiss's first novel, Time Windows (1991), was a well-wrought time fantasy involving a mother thwarted of self-realization, a pattern later revisited on occupants of the same house. Reiss's first novel, Time Windows (1991), was a well-wrought time fantasy involving a mother thwarted of self-realization, a pattern later revisited on occupants of the same house. The theme here is similar: two sisters are still trapped by the acrimony generated by the death of the man they both loved 20 years ago.

The Glass House People - Kathryn Reiss.

Beth’s mother, Hanny Lynn, hasn’t spoken to her parents or her sister, Iris, in twenty years. But she decides it’s time to set aside old grievances, so sixteen-year-old Beth and her brother, Tom, find themselves spending a sweltering summer with their mother and her family in a sleepy Pennsylvania town. More than just homesick, Beth is troubled by deep family tensions and Aunt Iris’s sudden drunken outbursts. As Beth begins to delve into family history, she discovers a chilling and inexplicable tragedy.

Comments: (7)

Nidora

it wasn't a waste of time, either. It's about a 16 year old girl named Beth who is forced to go along with her mother to her mother's childhood home. Hanny Lynn, Beth's mother, ran away from her family when she was a teenager and hasn't had contact with them since, and for a good reason! But what secret is hiding under the surface of this family? And why does Aunt Iris hate Hanny Lynn so much?

It was a little disappointing. I was expecting so much more from this book, but I do have to say the characterization was strong. I liked the contrasting personalities - especially that of drunken Aunt Iris. And the whole glass concept woven into the book was interesting as well. All in all, I'd probably give it a B.

Anaragelv

The Glass House People - By Kathryn Reiss
The protagonist in this book is Hannah. When Hannah was fifteen she ran away from her family, and house. She did this because she felt like she was in love with her sisters �to be� husband. One night Hannah was talking to him in his bedroom, and Iris (Hannah�s sister), walked in, and got the wrong idea. That night he was told to leave the house right away by Hannah�s an Iris�s parents. They were all crowded around the top of the staircase, and somehow he fell, cracked his head on the radiator, and died. Hannah�s goal was to have a good relationship with her family, but mainly her sister. Since what happened, she wasn�t sure if they would forgive her.
Hannah�s barrier is when she brings her children, Tom, and Beth to her family at her old house, Iris is still thinking that Hannah pushed her husband . Iris refuses to forgive her sister. At the end of the book, they figure out who really pushed him.
I liked the author�s writing style because she didn't go on and on, but instead she just explained what needed to be explained. When I first started to read this book, I thought that it was going to be a romance. I decided to keep reading though, and found that it was more of a mystery. I�m not one who loves mysteries, but I liked this one a lot! I would recommend this book to anyone who likes mysteries, or who likes to read books that seem realistic.

Snowseeker

Five stars is the right rateing for this book, I started to read it, and I couldn't put it down!!!

Beth is stuck in a car going to her grandparents house for the first time with her brother and widower mother. Beth doesnt even want to be there she was forced to go by her mother. When they reach their destination, Beth is amazed that this is the enviornment that her mother grew up in. Beth soon learns that all isn't what it appears. Her crazy aunt is always yelling at her and her mother for some unknown reason. Beth soon learns the startling truth. Her aunt was to be married but the man was killed by falling down the steep stairs and hitting his head on the radiator. Beth wanders for answers and starts to find some interesting information, her mother was a "rebel" in her younger years and was trying to split the marridge of her sister and her fiance. Later she learns that it might be her mothers fault!!! Will she ever know who did it??? An absolute must-read mystery book. It will keep you wondering to the very end!

caster

I don't know what it is about Reiss that I found so appealing when I was younger, but that appeal level has gone significantly down. I still do find some of her books to be positively fascinating, but really? She calls this a book? It begins slow and continues to be slow throughout the sequence of events. In comparison to Reiss's more supernatural books, this is a complete bore. It contains an obnoxiously simple and linear plot in which pretty much nothing happens. The entire book continues to basically be a broken record, with no real resolution, twists, anything much. It's unnecessarily melodramatic, and at multiple times I found myself uncontrollably laughing at the absurdity of it all, especially at what were supposed to be the more tense parts. The only well-developed truly round character in the story is Grandad, and he doesn't play much of a role at all until the unsatisfying end. This is not a book worth your time. I love her supernatural ones, but this really was nothing special.

Rating: 1.5/5

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A Review by Sherri
I thought this "The glass house people" was a good book, I thought Hannah was the best character though, because she was accused for killing someone, so it was like a mystery. It seemed like you were actually in the story, like when they got to their grandmas and grandpas house. They explained how the house was, and what it looked like. I would give this book a rating of 5 stars, because it was GOOD! I think anyone who likes mysteries should read this book; it's an AWESOME book!

Bradeya

i would give it 5 stars iloved that book i thought it was so goodthat i told my mom to go out and buy the book for me and now i am doing a reading fair project on it .If i could i would want to tell the author to please write anthor part to that book I did not think it should have been left off there. Well my name is Lindsey and i loved your book i am in 7th grade and asking please WRITE somemore!!!

thanks Lindsey 13 Missississippi

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