01418cam a2200373 4500 97274014 TxAuBib 20120312120000.0 090930t20092008||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780765352293 076535229X TxAuBib Ruby, Lois. The secret of Laurel Oaks / Lois Ruby. 1st mass market ed. New York : Starscape, 2009. ©2008. 288 p. ; 20 cm. "A Tom Doherty Associates book.". Library Media Connection, May 2009. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), December 2008. Kliatt, September 2008. Horn Book, April 2009. Kirkus Review, August 2008. Lila, visiting the reputedly haunted Laurel Oaks Plantation in Louisiana, is contacted by the spirit of Daphne, a slave girl in the 1840s who has been waiting for more than a century for just the right person to help clear her name of charges that she poisoned two girls and their mother. 5-8 Follett Library Resources. 5.1. 20120312. Haunted houses Fiction. Slavery Fiction. Ghost stories. Plantations Fiction. Louisiana Fiction.