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Crossing the Water|Daniel Robb

Crossing the Water : Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys-A Teacher's Memoir

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Off the coast of Cape Cod lies a small windswept island called Penikese. Alone on the island is a school for juvenile delinquents, the Penikese Island School, where Daniel Robb lived and worked for three years as a teacher. By turns harsh, desolate, and starkly beautiful, the island offers its temporary residents respite from lives filled with abuse, violence, and chaos. But as Robb discovers, peace, solitude, and a structured lifestyle can go only so far toward healing the anger and hurt he finds not only in his students but within himself.
Lyrical and heartfelt, Crossing the Water is the memoir of his first eighteen months on Penikese, and a poignant meditation on the many ways that young men can become lost.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780743202503
  • ISBN-10: 0743202503
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publish Date: June 2002
  • Dimensions: 8.41 x 5.53 x 0.71 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
  • Page Count: 288

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