Author of WASHASHORE, winner of the 2014 Green Earth Book Award for a young adult novel that encourages environmental stewardship. Ages 9-14. Fourteen-year-old Clementine Harper must spend a winter on the island of Martha's Vineyard with her mother. She's what the locals call a "washashore"—someone who's come to live on the island but isn't from there. Far from the city life she knows, her best friend and the father she adores, Clem doesn't fit in. But when she finds a fallen bird—an osprey—she also finds a role for herself helping to bring back the endangered birds, and learns that there are some things you can't save and some things you can—like osprey nests and, maybe, a lonely boy named Daniel. Goldsmith found the inspiration for this novel in the summers she spent on Martha's Vineyard as a teen and twenty-something, working as a waitress, art gallery clerk, babysitter and chambermaid. In her twenties, Suzanne worked in New York City youth community service program, a job that left her with a passion for service and voluntarism and resulted in her decision to write her first book, A CITY YEAR, a nonfiction account of a year in a youth service program. She was inspired to start writing fiction by many cozy evenings spent reading to her children. She lives in Ohio with her husband and their two children, who now read to themselves (mostly).