Washashore - Softcover

Suzanne Goldsmith

4.41

56 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193940312X ISBN 13: 9781939403124

Publisher: Lucky Marble Books, an imprint of PageSpring Publishing, 2013

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This year, everything changes for Clementine Harper.

Fourteen-year-old Clementine has left her city life in Boston to spend the winter on Martha’s Vineyard. She’s what the locals call a “Washashore” (WASH-a-shore) . . . someone who has come to live on the island but isn’t from there. An outsider.

Clem doesn’t have any friends and doesn’t fit in. Her mom and dad aren’t getting along. Coco, her best friend, is three hours away.

But then Clem finds a fallen bird—an osprey—on the beach. And she meets a lonely boy named Daniel.

And everything changes . . .

PRAISE for WASHASHORE:

“A love story surrounded by this beautiful island—Martha’s Vineyard—with its fragile shores and enduring birds. A tender-hearted story that calls out to save what we love so much.” --Carly Simon, Grammy Award-winning singer & songwriter

“The prose brings to life the era of the 1970s, but Goldsmith’s themes are timeless and will resonate with teens and adults alike.” --Lisa Klein, award-winning author of Ophelia, Lady MacBeth’s Daughter and Cate of the Lost Colony

“An adventure story in every sense of the word—the adventure, especially, of coming of age on an aging planet.” --Bill McKibben, founder, 350.org and author of Eaarth, The End of Nature and Deep Economy

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About the Author:

Suzanne Goldsmith grew up in Massachusetts. During high school, she lived alone in a cottage on Martha’s Vineyard for a summer while working in an art gallery. She still loves the Island and visits whenever she can. Suzanne is also the author of A CITY YEAR, about an internationally-known service program based in Boston. She lives in Ohio with her family. This is her first novel.

Review:

"A love story surrounded by this beautiful island--Martha's Vineyard--with its fragile shores and enduring birds. A tender-hearted story that calls out to save what we love so much." ---Carly Simon, Grammy Award-winning singer & songwriter

"The prose brings to life the era of the 1970s, but Goldsmith's themes are timeless and will resonate with teens and adults alike." -- --Lisa Klein, award-winning author of Ophelia, Lady MacBeth's Daughter, and Cate of the Lost Colony

"The prose of Washashore is uncluttered and precise in its detail. Ms. Goldsmith's narrative evokes the particularity of the Vineyard s landscape and the peculiarity of local lore. With affectionate description, she captures an Island of pay phones and hitchhiking, the most casual, dressed-down place in the world, a place where tupelo trees go by the curious name beetlebungs and spring peepers are known as pinkletinks." -- -- The Vineyard Gazette, Olivia Hull

"Ideal for young adults and teachers looking for a novel study of environmental content, this book will capture, transport and inspire a great breadth of readers."-- --Green Teacher Magazine

An adventure story in every sense of the word--the adventure, especially, of coming of age on an aging planet." -- --Bill McKibben, founder, 350.org and author of Eaarth, The End of Nature and Deep Economy

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