Mal Peet Cloud tea monkeys

Monkeys come to the rescue of a struggling family in this traditional tale from a Carnegie Medal winner.

Tashi lives in a tiny village below the tea plantations where her mother earns a living.

One day her mother falls ill, and Tashi must pick tea to earn the money for a doctor.

But she is too small to reach the tender shoots and the cruel Overseer sends her away empty-handed.

Tashi needs a miracle.

Then, on the mountains high above the plantation where only monkeys live, something extraordinary happens that will change her life for ever.