{"product_id":"crossing-the-water-eighteen-months-on-an-island-working-with-troubled-boys-a-teachers-memoir-9780743202503","title":"Crossing the Water: Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys-A Teacher's Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Daniel Robb\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Educators\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45409416904855,"sku":"9780743202503","price":1538.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780743202503.webp?v=1767311383","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/crossing-the-water-eighteen-months-on-an-island-working-with-troubled-boys-a-teachers-memoir-9780743202503","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}