{"product_id":"9780743218320","title":"Crossing the Water: Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys -- A Teacher's Memoir","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. \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.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126978363632,"sku":"9780743218320","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780743218320_p0.jpg?v=1763631619","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780743218320","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}