I recall reading a book as an early teen in the 90's about a group of children with harsh parents and the title was something along the lines of ". . . . . . . ,houses of glass".
I recall reading a book as an early teen in the 90's about a group of children with harsh parents and the title was something along the lines of ". . . . . . . ,houses of glass".
That could be The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, but that didn’t come out until 2005.
Perhaps it is The Children of the House.
Are you thinking of “The house of stairs” by William Sleator?
Children in a psychology experiment, some become conditioned others don’t.
The Children of the Red King was a YA series in the early 2000s by Jenny Nimmo. Book 3 was “the Castle of Mirrors”