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

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.

Author: Daniel Robb
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 06/11/2002
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.53w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780743202503
ISBN10: 0743202503
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Educators
- Political Science | Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- Education | General

About the Author
Daniel Robb, a carpenter and writer, has been an editor of academic journals; a teacher in Mississippi, New York, and Massachusetts; a political consultant; and the proprietor of a literary services business. He holds degrees from Middlebury College and the Breadloaf School of English. He lives in Woods Hole, Massachusetts

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