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 & Tashi must pick tea to earn the money for a doctor But she is too small to reach the tender shoots & 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