Black Box (17 page)

Depression is treatable.

If you or someone you know is suffering from depression,
ask for help. You aren’t alone.

Talk to an adult you can trust, and learn more at
www.helpguide.org/mental/depression_teen_teenagers.htm
.

If you are in danger and need help right away,
call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at
1-800-273-TALK (8255).

about the author

Julie Schumacher is the author of
The Book of One Hundred Truths,
winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Young Adult Fiction;
The Chain Letter;
and
Grass Angel,
a PEN Center USA Literary Award Finalist for Children’s Literature. She is also the author of numerous short stories and two books for adults, including
The Body Is Water,
an Ernest Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Finalist for First Fiction and an ALA Notable Book of the Year.

Julie Schumacher is the director of the creative writing program and a professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She lives with her family in St. Paul. Visit her at
www.julieschumacher.com
.

ALSO BY JULIE SCHUMACHER

Grass Angel

The Chain Letter

The Book of One Hundred Truths

Published by Delacorte Press
an imprint of Random House Children’s Books
a division of Random House, Inc.
New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by Julie Schumacher

All rights reserved.

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Black box / Julie Schumacher.—1st ed.

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Summary: When her sixteen-year old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.

[1. Depression, Mental—Fiction. 2. Sisters—Fiction. 3. Family problems—Fiction. 4. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 5. High schools—Fiction. 6. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.S3914Bl 2008

[Fic]—dc22

2007045774

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eISBN: 978-0-375-89116-8

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