| Crossing the Water: Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys-A Teacher's Memoir Contributor(s): Robb, Daniel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743202503 ISBN-13: 9780743202503 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $18.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Educators - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Education |
| Dewey: 362.748 |
| LCCN: 2001020575 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.53" W x 8.41" (0.60 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |