false <![CDATA[Crossing the Water]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg 1457748 1 It's a rare pleasure when a new author shows not only notable talent, but the skill and chutzpah to go where no one else has gone before. Daniel Robb takes a subject that many have considered but few understood--juvenile delinquents--and writes about it with rare insight. For a year and a half, Robb was a teacher on Penikese Island, off Cape Cod, where teenage boys are sent by the courts and social services to put six months between themselves and their chaotic daily lives. During this time they experience safety, a routine, hard work, and the decency and constancy of adults better adjusted than the ones they've known. The place is less a school, Robb writes, than "a family, or a way of life, a rhythm, a discipline, a music, with many voices of boys competing with my own for ownership of the tale." The boys have varied résumés: Mose shot a man who threatened him one night; Edward torched a boat for money; Alan is the king of substance abuse; Burt's parents have both been in jail since he was 7. But Robb finds that they all have a number of things in common--childhoods fraught with so many uncertainties that they never learned cause and effect, the lack of a father's guidance--the same things, it turn out, that plague Robb's own heart.<p> Robb has a gift for evoking their natural surroundings on the island in a language that resembles poetry while capturing the cadences and tribulations of his surly yet charming students with perfect pitch and clear-eyed sympathy. Not only does the dichotomy make for compelling reading, it works on the kids as well: Ned, the longhaired metalhead, gives CPR to a mouse and actually revives it; Wyatt, who stole cars out of boredom, considers his absent father's legacy after reading a Gary Snyder poem. Robb is a literary voyager in the most unlikely of places, and, in the end, reveals that even boys such as these have a poetry all their own. <I>--Lesley Reed</I> 1448547 1 5 2001 Crossing the Water total:11|5:4|4:2|3:5|2:0|1:0| 11 43 18 3 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 5 0 false Sun Feb 22 15:37:05 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 15:38:41 -0800 2009
I learned about the challenges of the author dealing and living with juvenile delinguents on an island of Cape Cod. It also seemed like her learned a lot of himself, and he exposed me to that journey.]]> 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 4 0 false Wed Jan 30 14:52:52 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 14:57:01 -0800 2008 call up the author and thank him for his honesty.
This is a true and very realistic account of working with
mostly angry teenagers, all of whom have every reason to be.
What makes this book good is the author does not sugarcoat h...more...]]> 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 4 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Jun 06 09:59:17 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 09:59:34 -0700 2008 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 0 0 false Sat Nov 14 20:03:43 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 21:43:48 -0800 2009 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 5 0 false Sun Aug 16 18:30:24 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 18:30:24 -0700 2009 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 0 0 false Thu Aug 13 13:28:26 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 13:28:26 -0700 2009 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 0 0 false Wed Jul 22 09:39:02 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 09:39:02 -0700 2009 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 0 0 false Thu Jun 11 20:19:21 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 20:19:21 -0700 2009 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 3 0 false Mon Feb 09 20:15:48 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 20:15:48 -0800 2009 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 5 0 false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Feb 08 11:02:08 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 09:51:59 -0700 2009 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 3 0 false Mon Dec 29 06:10:38 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 06:10:38 -0800 2008 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 3 0 false Tue Nov 25 16:00:16 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 16:00:16 -0800 2008 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 0 0 false Tue Nov 25 08:06:40 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 08:06:40 -0800 2008 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 0 0 false Fri Nov 21 05:45:46 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 05:45:46 -0800 2008 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 3 0 false Fri Jun 06 10:06:13 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 10:06:13 -0700 2008 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 0 0 false Thu Mar 13 12:46:34 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 12:46:34 -0700 2008 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 5 0 false Fri Feb 22 06:59:20 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 06:59:35 -0800 2008 1457748 0743202384 9780743202381 11 3 Crossing the Water 3.91 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183820154m/1457748.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1457748.Crossing_the_Water 3 0 false Sat Jul 07 07:56:17 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 07:56:17 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1457748