Peebles, Frances de Pontes
Dores
a skinny nine-year-old orphan
is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation in 1930s Brazil when in walks a girl who changes everything. Graca
the spoiled daughter of a sugar baron
is clever
pretty
and thrillingly ill behaved. Born to wildly different worlds
Dores and Graca bond quickly over shared mischief
and then
more deeply
over music. One has a voice like a songbird; the other feels melodies in her soul and composes lyrics to match. Music becomes their shared passion
the only way out of the life to which each was born. But only one is destined to be a star.--back cover