Code Orange - Caroline B. Cooney
Kristina Nguyen
Characters and Desrciption
Mitty- Mitty is lazy in the beginning but towards the end, he starts caring about what he does and he also becomes more responsible.
Olivia- Olivia is smart throughout the whole entire book. In the beginning of the book, Olivia would listen to everything anyone told her to do. But as the story slowly develops Olivia learns that you don’t always have to listen to everyone.
Derek- Derek is Mitty’s best friend and he is also great at solving mysteries. Like when the FBI asked about Mitty, Derek started thinking and in the end, he was actually right.
Plot
The plot of the book is that a sixteen year old boy named Mitchell "Mitty" Blake, has an assignment to do but he’s been putting it off. So when the teacher asks Mitty if he has started on it, Mitty lied saying he did. The paper has to be turned in, in ten days or else Mitty would be kicked out of advanced biology, the only class he has with his crush Olivia. Since he doesn't want that, Mitty now starts to work hard. Mitty found an old book in his mom's library about diseases so he opens it up. Inside, he found an envelope filled with old smallpox scabs. Mitty sniffs it, feels it, rubs in on his face, and also inhaled it. As time goes by, Mitty starts to realize he’s been showing signs of smallpox and he made the connections of it to the smallpox scabs. Mitty starts to email “professionals” about it but it turns out one of the so called “professionals” he talked to wasn't actually one but instead a terrorist who wants to spread smallpox all over Manhattan.
Beginning
The teacher walked in and asked the class if they had finished their project yet.But Mitty, who is lazy and does things last minute, doesn’t have any idea what the teacher is talking about. The teacher explained to Mitty that if he doesn’t boost his grade up he will be taken out of advanced biology. In other classes, Mitty wouldn’t care if he got taken out. But since it was in biology, Mitty actually cared. Why? Well, Mitty’s crush, Olivia, is in that very same class Mitty is in. It is also the only class he has with her. Since it was a Friday that day, Mitty and his family went to his other home which was in Northern New York. There he went inside the library and found a book on contagious diseases. Inside the book, was an envelope full of scabs. Mitty later learned that the scabs were 100 year old smallpox scabs. Mitty does more research on smallpox and he also found out that he was showing signs of having smallpox. Not knowing what to do, Mitty emails professionals but one of the people he emailed weren’t professionals. They turned out to be terrorists who want to infect all of Manhattan. Later on, Mitty was kidnapped by them and trapped in the basement the terrorists locked him in.
End
About the author
She went to college but then later on dropped out. After she did, Caroline B. Cooney went to several other colleges but never did she get a degree. Another fact about her is that she didn't know that she wanted to be a writer. It just happened.
She has also written many books:
-The Vampire Promise Trilogy
-Janie Johnson Series
-Losing Christina Series
-Time Travellers Quartet Series
There are many more but those were just the series out book she has written.