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Sing to the Dawn tells of Dawan, a young village girl who lives in Thailand, wins a scholarship to study in a city school. Her brother, Kwai, places second and is initially jealous, causing a rift between the two previously-close siblings. This hostility is further exacerbated by Dawan's father, who feels that the city is no place for a female. Dawan faces obstacles at every turn, and eventually overcomes these obstacles and proves to herself and to others that she is fully capable of handling the scholarship and the responsibility it entails. 

The important events in the novel "Sing to the dawn" are:

- Dawan, a young girl living in a rural village in Thailand gets a scolarship to study in the city.

- Dawan's father thinks that teaching girls is pointless and that she should give the scholaship to her brother Kwai.

-Kwai wants Dawan to give up the scholarship so he can get it, since he is second in the list.

- Dawan befriends a peddler named Bao and tells her her story. Bao lets Dawan free an expensive sparrow to cheer her up. Bao's brother beats her up for this and Kwait joins him when he learns that Bao knows his situation.

-Dawan tells Kwai his pretensions of helping the needy are false since he won’t help her.

-Kwai tells his father he will not accept the scolarship even if Dawan turns it down.

-Her father allowes her to accept the scolarship.

-Dawan leaves for the city.