W. Ross Macdonald School Library

Hurt Go Happy /

Rorby, Ginny, 1944- , author.

Hurt Go Happy / Ginny Rorby. - First mass market edition. - New York : Starscape, 2007, c2006. - 272 pages ; charts ; 20 cm

Includes the American sign language alphabet.

When thirteen-year-old Joey Willis, deaf since the age of six, meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his chimpanzee Sukari, who use sign language, her world blooms with possibilities but that of the chimp begins to narrow.

Ages 10 and up.

Schneider Family Book Award, 2008

9780765353047 0765353040

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Deaf--Fiction.
Chimpanzees--Fiction.
Sign language--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.


FICTION / Disabilities.
FICTION / General.

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