Code Orange

Code Orange

By: Caroline B. Cooney

           

            Everything’s fun and games for Mitty Blake. He’s just a lazy Student who has never really amounted himself to anything. Everything turns around for him when he has a huge project due in a couple of weeks. He hasn’t even started working on the project. Failure means dropping out of advanced biology, and dropping out of the class with the girl he thinks about all day, every day.

            Mitty has to come up with a report on an infectious disease, and fast. Luckily he finds some medical books from the early 1900’s in his weekend house in Connecticut. He soon discovers an old envelope in one of the books. It contains two scabs. He crushes one and accidentally inhales it. The envelope had the words Varolia Major written on it, which is Latin for smallpox.

            His encounter with the smallpox turns into a much more dramatic matter. Not just his own life, but the life of millions of others living in New York City are at stake.. Mitty has to find a way to prevent it, or he could be the cause of the outbreak of the century.