Spring Pearl

By Laurence Yep

Subjects: Family life -- China -- Guangzhou -- Fiction, Family life, fiction, China -- History -- Foreign intervention, 1857-1861 -- Fiction, Sex role, Orphans, fiction, Orphans -- Fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, Guangzhou (China) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, China, fiction, Sex role, fiction, Family life, Sex role -- Fiction, China -- History -- Foreign intervention, 1857-1861 -- Juvenile fiction

Description: Called boyish by her new family for being able to read and write, twelve-year-old, orphaned Spring Pearl's "odd ways" help save the family during the 1857 Opium War in Canton, China.