Title: Spring Pearl
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.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Family life, Fiction, Sex role, Orphans, History, Family life -- China -- Guangzhou -- Fiction, Orphans -- Fiction, Sex role -- Fiction, Guangzhou (China) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile fiction, China -- History -- Foreign intervention, 1857-1861 -- Juvenile fiction, China -- History -- Foreign intervention, 1857-1861 -- Fiction, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Sex role, fiction, Orphans, fiction, China, fiction
Places: China, Guangzhou, Guangzhou (China)
Time periods: 19th century, Foreign intervention, 1857-1861