Capitães da Areia

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Capitães de Areia (Captains of the Sand) is a Brazilian Modernist novel. It was written by Jorge Amado in 1936.

His novel tells of the Captains of the Sands, a gang of one hundred orphans and abandoned children. They are seven to fifteen years old and live by stealing, abandoned in the streets of Bahia, Brazil.

Main Characters: Dora, Pedro Bala, Gato, Professor, Volta Seca, Pirulito and Sem-Pernas. Rabinho e queijinho!!!