Sing to the Dawn is a story by Chinese-American author Minfong Ho, which was originally published as a short story and was awarded first prize by the Council of Interracial Books for Children in New York City in 1975.

[2] Dawan, a young village girl, gets first place in an examination and wins a scholarship to study in a city school.

Her brother, Kwai, places second in the examination and is initially jealous, creating a rift between the two previously-close siblings.

Dawan 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.

But she faces the disapproval of her father, who remain's convinced that city life and further schooling are not for a girl.