Booktalking "Spring Pearl: the Last Flower" by Laurence Yep: Posts from New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B
Twelve-year-old Chou Spring Pearl moves to the ritzy Sung mansion when her scholar parents die in Canton in 1857. Formerly from the Rats' Nest neighborhood, the rich Sung children take to calling Spring Pearl "Miss Ratty," then "Miss Weed" when they discover her love of gardening. Blessing, a Sung son, is determined to defeat her at a myriad of games, including chess. Doggy, one of the servants, places bets that she …