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

Name: Crossing the Water Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys-A Teacher's Memoir
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ISBN: 9780743202503

ISBN-10: 0743202503

ISBN-13: 9780743202503

Edition: 2002

Authors: Daniel Robb

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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 Wateris the memoir of his first eighteen months on Penikese, and a poignant meditation on the many ways that young…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 6/11/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English