Reading Level
What is the reading level of House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family is 7th and 8th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 10 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 11 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 9 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 7 |
Reading Time
6 hrs 22 mins
How long to read House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family?
The estimated word count of House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family is 95,325 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 6 hrs 22 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 10 hrs 36 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 32 mins.
| House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family - 95,325 words | ||
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| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 10 hrs 36 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 6 hrs 22 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 3 hrs 32 mins |
- Authors
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Hadley Freeman
More about House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
95,325 words
Word Count
for House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
352 pages
Pages
10 hours and 15 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
A writer investigates her family’s secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations.Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother Sara lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Long after her grandmother’s death, she found a shoebox tucked in the closet containing photographs of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross, and a drawing signed by Picasso. This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long quest to uncover the significance of these keepsakes, taking her from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island to Auschwitz. Freeman pieces together the puzzle of her family’s past, discovering more about the lives of her grandmother and her three brothers, Jacques, Henri, and Alex. Their stories sometimes typical, sometimes astonishing—reveal the broad range of experiences of Eastern European Jews during Holocaust. This thrilling family saga is filled with extraordinary twists, vivid characters, and famous cameos, illuminating the Jewish and immigrant experience in the World War II era. Addressing themes of assimilation, identity, and home, this powerful story about the past echoes issues that remain relevant today.