![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, the story could have focused more on Joey's adjustment to attending a signing Deaf school as an oral Deaf kid, which would have been a much more interesting and original storyline than some ridiculous 'teenager travels cross-country to rescue a language trained ape' plotline. I think the story could have been much better if a) Charlie was part of a research team rather than some weirdo rich loner, b) Sukari didn't end up willed to Joey or in a medical research laboratory. And most language trained chimps have never been sent to a medical research laboratory, so why does every book have to go there? The overall impression is that Sukari is just a tool to deliver the author's ham-fisted animal rights message. There isn't a huge excess of chimps, either, and zoos are actually trying pretty hard to breed them. They certainly don't get willed to teenagers, especially disabled teenagers. In real life, language trained chimps don't belong to random old guys in the woods, but instead are raised by graduate students working with a university. It read like a poorly thought out rip off of Kenneth Oppel's Half Brother, with a lot more fridge logic issues. However, I felt that Sukari (the chimpanzee) and her plotline was not very believable. ![]() The characters of Joey and her family and the way they grow in this book felt very real. ![]()
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