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Cloud Tea Monkeys

Mal Peet

199932 pagesabout 30–45 minutes
1999
first published
  • 2010Candlewick Press · ENGISBN 9780763644536
  • 2010Walker Books, Limited · ENGISBN 9781406300925
  • 2011Walker Childrens Paperbacks · 56 pagesISBN 9781406333862
  • 1999Ragged Bears · 32 pages · ENGISBN 9781857141924

When her mother becomes too ill to harvest tea on the nearby plantation, Shenaz is too small to fill in, but when she tells the monkeys she has befriended why she is sad, they bring her a basket filled with rare and valuable wild tea.

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Character focusSmall ensemble

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Written forMiddle grade

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