Spring Pearl
About this book
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.
Subjects
- children's fiction
- china, fiction
- china -- history -- foreign intervention, 1857-1861 -- fiction
- china -- history -- foreign intervention, 1857-1861 -- juvenile fiction
- family life
- family life -- china -- guangzhou -- fiction
- family life, fiction
- fiction
- guangzhou (china) -- history -- 19th century -- juvenile fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction
- orphans
- orphans -- fiction
- orphans, fiction
- sex role
- sex role -- fiction
- sex role, fiction