Code Orange (Readers Circle) | Caroline B. Cooney

Code Orange (Readers Circle) | Caroline B. Cooney | Great young adult book

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	Code Orange (Readers Circle) Caroline B. Cooney Laurel Leaf, 2007 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 30 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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Mitty is a typical 16 year old boy. He loves music and his iPod. His only reason to go to any class at all is because he wants to be in Advanced Science with his crush. All of this changes when he decides that he actually has to do a project for Advanced Science to stay in. He starts his reaserch in a couple of old science books that his mom was using to decorate a library. Stuck into one of the pages was an envelope titled V.M. Inside it was a couple of scabs, maybe 100 years old at the youngest. Mitty handles them, breathes in their dust, and maybe worst of all, studies them. He decides to do this V.M. thing for his reaserch project. He learns that V.M. means smallpox. He also frightingly finds out that he could be infections and could start an epidemic. Read this exciting thriller that will leave you at the end of your seat through thee entire book. I loved it and so will you!

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Great young adult book

Code Orange kept the attention of my 12 year old daughter who really doesn't like to read. It was on a list of approved books at her school for summer reading, so I was reassured that it would be appropriate for her age. I would recommend it to others of this age group.

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This book has adventure, mystery, and humor. Mitty never did his homework, so why is all of a sudden is he hooked on his advanced biology assignment? Why is he asking himself could I get smallpox from 100-year-old scabs? It only takes seven days for a person to get affected and spread the deise. But Mitty goes missing Mitty didn't mean to or did he?
This book is fiction, with some non-fiction. Code Orange is recommend for kids 11 and up, because there are some hard words. This book is great it draws you in. You can't stop thinking about the book. Caroline B. Convey has written many other great books such as; The Face on the Milk Carton, What Ever Happen To Jaine, The Voice On The Radio. My opinion of Code Orange it a great book. So go to your library and get the best book you will ever read.

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Code Orange

Code Orange took a long time for me to get a hold of and it was pretty much worth the wait. I found that this book was very exciting and I enjoyed it very much.
This book is about a tennage boy name Mitty who has rich parents but is a slacker in school and barely gets by his classes just because of his parents aura of command that they have. Soon, in biology, he is given a project to find a infectious disease of some sort and research opon the subject. When his preants go to their country house, he only finds old books and a envelope full of scabs. This envelope says 1902 epdemic. Mitty doesnt know that this is smallpox remains that he is dealing with. So after handling the smallpox scabs he retrieves the disease and he doesnt know until about day 6 when almost no vaccine does any good to his body. He finishes the project and then he starts to worry. He post on the internet for help and after terrorist find out that he has smallpox, they capture his to use the smallpox as a biohazard and harm the U.S citizens. By this time, FBI, NYPD, and all the other agencies are on the case and try to find Mitty.
Meanwhile, Mitty, in a chamber below grounds uses his wit and knowledge to get out of the cellar. He kills his captor and manages to leave and is rescued by the agencies that are searching for him. Then the end comes and like regular novels, Mitty is saved and well.

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All About Orange Code.

This book takes place in New York City in present time. Mitty is a 15-year-old boy who thinks that life would be so much easier without school. The only reason that he makes himself go is Olivia. Mitty takes advanced biology, and he's not really sure why. His class is assigned to research a infectious disease using books as their textural references. If he does not make a good grade on this test, he'll go back down to regular biology. Mitty would be fine with that, but it would mean not being in Olivia's class. So he decides to do the project. He chooses Variola Major, commonly called smallpox. While researching, Mitty comes upon a envelope stuck in between the pages of a disease book. When he opens it he finds several, what he believes were once smallpox scabs from a 1920 epidemic. As Mitty is writing his paper, he describes what smallpox does to your body. I recommend not reading these parts on a stop-and-go bus ride on the way to school, it only makes it worse. At the end of the chapters, the author tries to scare you by implying that the scabs had gone into his nose, and were affecting Mitty. He himself can not decide if he actually has this disease which he and the rest of the world thought no longer existed, or if he is simply imagining it.
So, Mitty decides to email different medical committees and groups that he thinks he may have smallpox. These groups act in different ways, one person wants to buy the scabs, others think theirs no way the virus could last that long, and another threatens to call the FBI for joking about a terrorist threat. Mitty tries to make himself believe that he doesn't have small pox, but he can't help thinking he may cause a bioterrorist attack. It ends up that he thinks about killing himself, but actual terrorists kidnap him first. You still don't know if he actually does have small pox or not. I personally didn't think he did NOT, since the author had been hinting Mitty did.
Finally, Mitty pretends he has smallpox, slightly believing it himself, and the kidnappers believe him. He lures the kidnappers down stairs, and locks them in. He also breaks a pipe which releases carbon monoxide into the air. He manages to escape himself, just barely, and calls 9-1-1.
I found the book very enjoyable and fun to read. It was very suspenseful and very good. The only critique I have to make is the fact that reading about what would happen if someone with smallpox was a little too detailed and sickening.

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