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<p>WHEN DORA, ELENA S older sister, is diagnosed with depression and has to be admitted to the hospital, Elena can t seem to make sense of their lives anymore. At school, the only people who acknowledge Elena are Dora s friends and Jimmy Zenk who failed at least one grade and wears blackevery day of the week. And at home, Elena s parents keep arguing with each other. Elena will do anything to help her sister get better and get their lives back to normal even when the responsibility becomes too much to bear.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p><P>Lena Lindt and her older sister, Dora, have always been close, like "right and left hands laced tight together." They and their parents accept that Dora is the moody but fun one, "a storm on the horizon, [Lena] the needle that always pointed to <I>steady</I>," a formula that works until Dora is overcome by severe depression in her junior year of high school. Schumacher's (<I>The Book of One Hundred Truths</I>) characterizations are humane yet shaded: to combat the effect of Dora's illness, Mr. and Mrs. Lindt send the outwardly coping Lena to a therapist but treat Dora's eventual hospitalization like

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Author

Schumacher, Julie, 1958-

Publisher

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385735421

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Children'S, Literary Fiction