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Daniel Robb (born 1965) is an American writer of nonfiction books, including Crossing the Water: Eighteen Months on an Island Working with Troubled Boys- a Teacher's Memoir (2001 Simon & Schuster) and Sloop: Restoring My Family's Wooden Sailboat- An Adventure in Old-Fashioned Values'' (2008 Simon & Schuster).

In Crossing the Water, Robb chronicles his experience teaching at the Penikese Island School, a live-in school for troubled youth on a remote island off the coast of Massachusetts. The book juxtaposes stories of the adolescent boys who have been adjudicated to the island (as an alternative to incarceration) with Robb's recollections from his own youth, and discusses the juvenile justice system and the influence of the isolated island and its natural beauty on the boys' recovery process. Writes the Washington Post, Robb "excels at describing the beautiful flora and fauna of the 75-acre island, as well as the cramped quarters he shares with his colleagues."