Have you ever just lost something or someone and you can't seem to let go? But then again you are losing more memories of them every second and you can't recover them. This is exactly how Clare Silver feels after her dad "drags" her into the heart of Africa. She is still hurting from when her mom died a few months before they arrived in Africa. She tries giving her dad the silent treatment but it turns out she needs her voice to survive. See how she survives with the monkey
http://mybookwormblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/laugh-with-the-moon-by-shana-burg/