The story Blackbox is about a 14 year old girl named Elena, her sister, Dora who is 16 years old, and their parents. Elena and Dora have always been super close to eachother but everything had changed about 2 years ago, when Dora had gotten diagnosed with depression. Dora started getting independent with just about everything and stopped talking with her family as much as she used to, and she started to argue with them more and more each day. She is always tired and sleeping, always crying or depressed about something. Then she had decided to just try to get away from everything by trying to overdose on her depression medication. Nothing was happening to her yet, but one day before school she took it way too far, and when her parents caught her taking all the pills, they took her straight to the hospital where she then had to stay for twenty-three days to try to get better. When she finally got home, she changed and stopped trying to sneak the pills and overdose, or so her parents and Elena thought.
About a month later, she forged a note that said she had to leave early for a doctors appointment so she would be able to leave the school. But a random stranger had found her under a bridge with the pill bottle and Dora looked pale. So the random lady called the school and the school called her parents. Doras' parents had decided they had both had enough of what she was trying to do, so they sent her to a place for people like that. Elena wasn't understanding what was happening because she made Dora promise that she wouldn't do that anymore and she didn't think Dora would break the promise. Elena wouldn't talk to her before she left because she was really mad. That is what the book Blackbox is about and why i liked it and had chosen it for my independent reading book. I deffinitly recommend this book to other people!
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