Over the summer I read Hurt Go Happy by Ginny Rorby. This was one of the best books I have ever read. It is about a girl named Joey who is deaf and learns sign language from a chimpanzee and his owner, an elderly man, who both know how to sign. One conflict in the story is the old man Charlie who owns Sukrai the chimp dies. He leaves money and Sukrai to Joey. After one of his family members takes care of her a while she gets to much to handle, this is also happening while Joey is away at a school for the deaf. They send Sukrai to a chimpanzee experimentation plant in New Mexico where they do horrible things to them because nobody else had the funding for a chimp. Joey goes by herself all of the way to New Mexico to get Sukrai back and saves