Title: The ghosts of Pickpocket Plantation
Description: Terry, an orphan, spends the summer with his aunt at her newly inherited colonial rice plantation outside Savannah, Georgia. Past and present collide. The time of slave trading haunts Terry. Terry and his aunt are forced to confront their past and their future. And in the process Terry takes a giant step into becoming his own man.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, History, Slave traders, Mystery and detective stories, Fiction
Places: South Carolina
Time periods: 1775-1865