The Secret of Laurel Oaks

By Lois Ruby

Subjects: Ghosts, fiction, Haunted houses, Plantations, Plantation life, Slavery, fiction, Ghost stories, Slavery, Romans, nouvelles, Louisiana, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Haunted places, Ghosts

Description: While staying with her family in Louisiana's Laurel Oaks Plantation, purported to be one of the most haunted places in America, thirteen-year-old Lila is contacted by the ghost of a slave girl unjustly convicted of murder. Story inspired by the author's visit to the Myrtles Plantation in Louisiana.