Yep, Laurence.

Spring Pearl : the last flower / by Laurence Yep ; [illustrations by Kazuhiko Sano]. - Middleton, Wis. : Pleasant Co. Publications, c2002. - 204 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm. - Girls of many lands .

"China".

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.

ISBN: 1584855193 (pbk.) 1584855959

LCCN: 2001008750

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Family life--China--Guangzhou--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Sex role--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Guangzhou (China)--History--19th century--Fiction.
China--History--Foreign intervention, 1857-1861--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.Y44 / Sp 2002

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]