CODE ORANGE
By: Rachel, Jake, Anna, and Eli
Table of contents
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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
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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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Vocabulary s.24
Setting s.25
Characters s.26-29
Themes s.30
Important quotes s.31
Author info page s.32
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.
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.
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.
Chapter 4
• After his parents leave, Mitty reads more
about smallpox and starts his paper. Then
Mitty goes to eat at Gray’s Papaya. Since
he read so much about smallpox, Mitty
began to imagine having symptoms of
smallpox.
Chapter 5
• Being paranoid about smallpox, Mitty
didn’t 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.
Chapter 6
• In chapter 6, Mitty comes home and can’t
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.
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.
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
didn’t notice, Mitty’s inbox was swarming
with mail from scientists from all over the
country.
Chapter 9
• After school the next day, Mitty read his emails. 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.
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.
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.
Chapter 12
• Olivia and Mitty don’t 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 Mitty’s apparent suicide letter the
F.B.I. think he is dead, but Olivia and
Derek think otherwise.
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.
Chapter 14
• Mitty and Olivia don’t 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.
Chapter 15
• Mitty is still trapped in a basement, he
hasn’t 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.
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.
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.
Chapter 18
• Olivia thinks that Mitty jumped in the river,
but Derek thinks otherwise. Neither of
them give up hope on finding him.
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.
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.
Vocabulary
Bioterrorists- people who want an infectious
disease so they can kill lots of people.
Setting
• This book takes place in mainly New York.
It also takes place in Connecticut at Mitty’s
weekend house.
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 Mitty’s advanced
biology. The reason he stays there is because of
Olivia. Olivia plays a big part in Mitty’s life
because she is his girlfriend. She usually helps
Mitty with his report so he doesn’t get bad enough
grades to drop out of advanced biology. Olivia is a
nice, caring sixteen year old
Characters
• Mittys Parents-Mitty’s parents role in code
orange is loving, but a little clueless, in their
eyes, Mitty can do no wrong .
• Mr. Lynch-Mr. Lynch is Mitty’s advanced
biology teacher at St. Raphael’s 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!
Characters
• Agent Anthony Finelli and Agent McKaythese FBI agents don’t play a big part in
mitty’s 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.
Characters
• Mrs. Abrams- Mrs. Abrams is Mitty’s
English teacher and she assigns Mitty
another paper, but it is on comparing
Beowulf monsters to monsters of
infectious disease.
Themes
• Bioterrorism
• Disease
• School
Important Quotes
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“Due date for what?” says Mitty
“Celebrate good times, come on!” Mitty
“ Your nickname was Bunny?” Mitty
“Fooled you didn’t I?” Mitty
Author Information
• Code Orange was written by Caroline B.
Cooney.
• Caroline also wrote The Face on the Milk
Carton.