Lyrical and haunting, Hannah Capin's I Am Margaret Moore is a paranormal thriller that tests the hold of sisterhood and truth.
I am a girl. I am a monster, too.
Each summer the girls of Deck Five come back to Marshall Naval School. They sail on jewel-blue waters; they march on green drill-fields; they earn sunburns and honors. They push until they break apart and heal again, stronger.
Each summer Margaret and Rose and Flor and Nisreen come back to the place where they are girls, safe away from the world: sisters bound by something more than blood.
But this summer everything has changed. Girls are missing and a boy is dead. It's because of Margaret Moore, the boys say. It's because of what happened that night in the storm.
Margaret's friends vanish one by one, swallowed up into the lies she has told about what happened between her and a boy with the world at his feet. Can she unravel the secrets of this summer and last, or will she be pulled under by the place she once called home?
Reviews
"Davies expertly portrays the teen's scattered memories and heightened emotions, imbuing her with all the passion, hopefulness, and devastation Margaret experiences. In doing so, Davies brings Margaret's harrowing story to life, and encourages listeners to listen to the audiobook again just to see what clues they might have missed." —AudioFile
A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books
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March 15, 2022 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781250820693
- File size: 197550 KB
- Duration: 06:51:33
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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Caitlin Davies's performance of this young adult paranormal story will have listeners on edge. It is summer again. Sixteen-year-old Margaret Moore and the Deck 5 girls are together at the Marshall Navel School once more, just as they have been every year since they were 9. But this summer is different, and it is all Margaret's fault. The story is told in a stream-of-consciousness style from Margaret's point of view. Davies expertly portrays the teen's scattered memories and heightened emotions, imbuing her with all the passion, hopefulness, and devastation Margaret experiences. In doing so, Davies brings Margaret's harrowing story to life, and encourages listeners to listen to the audiobook again just to see what clues they might have missed. A.L.S.M. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine -
Starred review from January 31, 2022
Lyrical writing distinguishes this haunting summer camp thriller as an enthralling literary mystery with crossover appeal. A thousand girls from all over the world, ages nine to 18, attend the Marshall Summer Naval School. On the shore of Lake Nanweshmot, the campers learn to sail, play tennis, ride horses, and practice semaphore. Margaret Moore, who reads as white, narrates as her three best friends—general’s daughter Flor Gómez, who is Venezuelan; Jordanian Nisreen Al-Shayab; and presumed-white Rose Winston—arrive at camp. After eight summers together, they have become a family. But dreamy Mar, who “falls in love too fast” and reads Emily Dickinson (whose poems appear throughout), has dark secrets concerning “a boy from Naval One,” which will change things for all of them. Via Mar’s urgent voice, intimate with the history of shared girlhoods and betrayal, Capin (Foul Is Fair) reveals over three sections the previous summer’s events, elevating plot twists that contribute mystery and terror to this ingenious story about misogyny and power dynamics. Ages 14–up. Agent: Sarah Burnes, Gernert Co.
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