CODE ORANGE

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CODE ORANGE

• By Rachel, Jake, Anna, and Eli

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Table of contents

• Chapter 1 s.4
• Chapter 2 s.5
• Chapter 3 s.6
• Chapter 4 s.7
• Chapter 5 s.8
• Chapter 6 s.9
• Chapter 7 s.10
• Chapter 8 s.11
• Chapter 9 s.12
• Chapter 10 s.13

• Chapter 11 s.14
• Chapter 12 s.15
• Chapter 13 s.16
• Chapter 14 s.17
• Chapter 15 s.18
• Chapter 16 s.19
• Chapter 17 s.20
• Chapter 18 s.21
• Chapter 19 s.22
• Novel summary s.23

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Table of contents (2)

• Vocabulary s.24
• Setting s.25
• Characters s.26-29
• Themes s.30
• Important quotes s.31
• Author info page s.32

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Chapter 1

• In chapter one, Mitty Blake has to rush to finish
  a term paper for advanced biology. Every weekend,
  Mitty and his parents go to their weekend home in
  Connecticut. While Mitty is there, he finds four
  books on smallpox, his biology topic. In one of
  the books there is an envelope containing
  smallpox scabs that he accidentally inhales.

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Chapter 2

• After coming back from Connecticut, Mitty had
  tons of homework, not to mention, ten pages of
  notes. At school the next day, his friend Derek,
  goes on and on about the anthrax murders. After
  school, Mitty starts on his notes, but decides to
  skip to his rough draft instead. Mitty continued
  to read about smallpox, everything happening to
  the people he is reading about could be happening
  to him too.

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Chapter 3

• In chapter 3, Mitty goes to a medical library
  with Olivia Clark (his crush). At the library,
  Mitty finds his smallpox epidemic in which there
  were 1024 cases but only 190 died. Then Olivia
  helps Mitty with his notes, and encourages him to
  do well on his paper.

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Chapter 4

• After his parents leave, Mitty reads more about
  smallpox and starts his paper. Then Mitty goes
  to eat at Grays Papaya. Since he read so much
  about smallpox, Mitty began to imagine having
  symptoms of smallpox.

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Chapter 5

• Being paranoid about smallpox, Mitty didnt sleep
  well. Then Mitty is assigned yet another paper!
  When he hands in his biology notes Mr. Lynch is
  surprised to see that he has almost finished the
  whole assignment.

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Chapter 6

• In chapter 6, Mitty comes home and cant find his
  smallpox books, but finds them under his bed.
  Mitty discovers there is an old smallpox hospital
  in New York where part of a Spider Man movie was
  filmed so he goes to take pictures. Then Mitty
  learns about bioterrorists who are people who try
  to wipe out part of a country by spreading an
  infectious disease.

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Chapter 7

• Mitty was late for school because he slept in,
  but found out he got an A on his English test.
  In the library researching smallpox, Mitty finds
  that smallpox is probably not infectious after
  100 years, so he starts to sing and dance. Then
  Mitty goes to the girls basketball game after
  school with Olivia.

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Chapter 8

• That weekend at their cabin, Mitty and his
  parents watched U Conn basketball most of the
  weekend. Mitty began to finish the last two
  sections of his biology report. Once he is done
  he e-mails scientists about finding smallpox
  scabs. Though he didnt notice, Mittys inbox
  was swarming with mail from scientists from all
  over the country.

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Chapter 9

• After school the next day, Mitty read his
  e-mails. Most e-mails were answering the
  question of whether it is still infectious, but
  others wanted to find the scabs for many odd
  reasons. Some people were collectors and others
  just wanted them. One person even forwarded the
  e-mail to the F.B.I. as if Mitty was a threat.

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Chapter 10

• Mitty began to think he might have smallpox, so
  he thinks of places to go to die. He woke early
  the next day to head to school. He ate breakfast
  at a diner. On a bench facing the Hudson River,
  Mitty began to write a good-bye letter to his
  parents explaining how and why he went into
  hiding.

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Chapter 11

• After school Mitty heads to his apartment, but
  Olivia catches him and starts talking about
  Valentines Day coming up. Thinking he had
  smallpox, Mitty says nothing which makes Olivia
  cry. He decides not to apologize since he is
  dieing anyway.

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Chapter 12

• Olivia and Mitty dont come to school the next
  day and no one knows why. Then Derek is pulled
  from class by the F.B.I. trying to find Mitty.
  After getting a call at her house from school,
  Olivia rushes to school, worried about Mitty, and
  after reading Mittys apparent suicide letter the
  F.B.I. think he is dead, but Olivia and Derek
  think otherwise.

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Chapter 13

• In chapter 13, Mitty wakes up in a cold
  warehouse, taped to the floor with duct tape and
  he vomits on himself. He remembers a woman
  calling his name and him getting into a car with
  her. Then two guards come and unleash him. The
  men see he is sick and leave. Mitty realizes he
  has to stay with them to protect New York from
  smallpox.

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Chapter 14

• Mitty and Olivia dont come to school and the
  F.B.I. come and interrogate Derek. Olivia
  rushes to school to help find Mitty. They assume
  Mitty has gone into hiding because he thinks he
  has smallpox.

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Chapter 15

• Mitty is still trapped in a basement, he hasnt
  eaten and he is starving. Then the guards feed
  him McDonalds. Mitty starts collecting things
  like nails and electrical cords for weapons
  against the guards.

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Chapter 16

• In chapter 16, Mitty is still trapped in a
  basement, but now he is becoming ill. After days
  of lying on a cot Mitty was covered in vomit and
  his own pee. Then when the guards came down for
  a third time, Mitty attacked. He had been faking
  the whole time!!!!!! Now Mitty was locked in a
  basement with two foreign strangers who had been
  trying to kill him and most of New York.

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Chapter 17

• A phone in the floor above Mitty rang. Then
  Mitty shuts off the lights and poisonous carbon
  monoxide begans to seep into the basement. Soon
  all three captives will be dead. Not long after
  their fight Mitty slumped to the floor.

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Chapter 18

• Olivia thinks that Mitty jumped in the river, but
  Derek thinks otherwise. Neither of them give up
  hope on finding him.

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Chapter 19

• Nearly dead, Mitty began to hear voices upstairs.
  Mitty was dragged from the gas filled basement
  by more bioterrorists, and Mitty locked them in
  the basement to die. Mitty called 911 and was
  taken to the hospital and was treated for a
  broken jaw and slight carbon monoxide poisoning.

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Novel Summary

• Basically in Code Orange, a boy named Mitty Blake
  finds smallpox scabs on a book, and the scabs
  send him on an adventure trying to save New York
  from bioterrorists who want smallpox to wipe out
  all of New York.

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Vocabulary

• Bioterrorists- people who want an infectious
• disease so they can kill lots of people.

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Setting

• This book takes place in mainly New York. It
  also takes place in Connecticut at Mittys
  weekend house.

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Characters

• Mitty- Mitty is a loving, caring boy. He is also
  very lazy and very good at procrastinating. He is
  in a private school for the rich and/or brilliant
  (falling into the first category)
• Olivia- Olivia is the sweet girl in Mittys
  advanced biology. The reason he stays there is
  because of Olivia. Olivia plays a big part in
  Mittys life because she is his girlfriend. She
  usually helps Mitty with his report so he doesnt
  get bad enough grades to drop out of advanced
  biology. Olivia is a nice, caring sixteen year
  old

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Characters

• Mittys Parents-Mittys parents role in code
  orange is loving, but a little clueless, in their
  eyes, Mitty can do no wrong .
• Mr. Lynch-Mr. Lynch is Mittys advanced biology
  teacher at St. Raphaels school in New York city.
  He assigned Mitty a term paper on an infectious
  disease. Which leads Mitty to finding smallpox
  scabs and nearly dieing, twice!

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Characters

• Agent Anthony Finelli and Agent McKay- these FBI
  agents dont play a big part in mittys life, but
  they do in his rescue from terrorists who think
  he has smallpox. They work with mittys family
  and friends, to try and help them find their son,
  boyfriend, and friend.

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Characters

• Mrs. Abrams- Mrs. Abrams is Mittys English
  teacher and she assigns Mitty another paper, but
  it is on comparing Beowulf monsters to monsters
  of infectious disease.

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Themes

• Bioterrorism
• Disease
• School

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Important Quotes

• Due date for what? says Mitty
• Celebrate good times, come on! Mitty
• Your nickname was Bunny? Mitty
• Fooled you didnt I? Mitty

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Author Information

• Code Orange was written by Caroline B. Cooney.
• Caroline also wrote The Face on the Milk Carton.