{"product_id":"9780743202503","title":"Crossing the Water : Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys-a Teacher's Memoir","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eCrossing the Water\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Daniel Robb\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOff 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. \u003cbr\u003e Lyrical and heartfelt, \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Water\u003c\/i\u003e is the memoir of his first eighteen months on Penikese, and a poignant meditation on the many ways that young men can become lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003eRobert Coles, M.D. \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Water\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully thoughtful and sensitive account of a healer's odyssey...a lyrically and candidly narrated effort that deserves a lot of respectful and grateful attention from all of us who work with children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e magazine Without lapsing into sentimentality, this graceful memoir reveals the mettle of kids who can persevere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e Robb's journal entries vividly document what happens when education is pared down to its barest, most human essentials.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780743202503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40588619448526,"sku":"9780743202503","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_18a6566e-c046-4dfc-b93f-ee11c10091eb.jpg?v=1637700298","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780743202503","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}