This study guide was created using the following version of this book: Capin, Hannah. I Am Margaret Moore. Wednesday Books, 2021.

I am Margaret Moore is a novel about a young woman who is returning to summer camp at The Marshall Summer Naval School after a traumatic experience the previous summer. Margaret is excited to see her friends -- Flor, Nisreen, and Rose. The girls are reunited, and Margaret observes that Flor and Nisreen are in love with each other, even though the girls know that they cannot be together in their outside lives.

Flor, Nisreen, and Rose do not know what actually happened to Margaret the previous summer. The friends have their suspicions but do not know anything for sure. Margaret does not want anyone to know and appears to have blocked out some of her memories. Margaret is reluctant to even mention the name of the boy that she fell in love with last summer.

Margaret gradually begins to remember things, but she does not want to face the truth about what happens. Margaret knows that she was in love with a boy and that the boy betrayed her. Margaret admits that the boy she was in love with is Jack VanLandingham, the son of a prominent family. Jack forced Margaret to keep their relationship a secret because Jack’s family would not approve of Margaret.

Margaret’s friends try to get to the bottom of why Margaret was sent away from camp the previous year. Margaret struggles to communicate with her friends as Margaret continues to process what happened to her. Margaret remembers getting pregnant by Jack and wanting to have an abortion, but Margaret’s parents refuse. Jack’s parents offered Margaret’s family money to make Margaret go away. Margaret remembers begging Jack to admit their love for each other.

Margaret finally remembers Jack taking her to Margaret’s parents’ summer home. Jack gave Margaret rat poison, suggesting that the poison would only cause Margaret an abortion. Margaret remembers Jack killing her and burying her under the floorboards in the house. Margaret realizes that she is a ghost and that the people at the camp believe Margaret died by suicide in a violent summer last summer.

Margaret sees Jack and pulls him down into the lake. Margaret believes she has the ability to kill Jack. However, when Jack yells Margaret’s name, Margaret lets Jack go. Margaret considers how she is capable of killing Jack, but she lets him live.

Flor, Nisreen, and Rose all face resistance as they try to find out what really happened to Margaret. The friends are threatened with being stripped of their ranks and sent away from camp. The friends try to communicate with Margaret, unaware that Margaret’s ghost is with them. Margaret believes she is capable of reaching beyond the veil to communicate with her friends. Margaret confirms that Jack is the boy that hurt her. Margaret, Flor, Nisreen, and Rose all work together to stop Jack from getting away with Margaret’s murder. They come together to drown Jack in the lake.