Quarter 4 Blog #2

The novel, Code Orange, by Caroline B. Cooney, is a suspenseful thriller that really interested me. I finished the book a while ago and it was amazing. The plot was about a boy named Mitty, who lives in the suburbs of New York; he has to do a project on an infectious disease, which he chooses Variola Major, the virus responsible for small pox. As the story progesses, he gets sick from Variola Major and believes he has smallpox; so some terrorists kidnap him and try to use him to infect the city. In the end, you actually find out that he didn't have the virus, which is what really gets you. Overall, I thought it was a good book because of how the author was able to manipulate the reader with several key events to make you believe something and end up finding out she was leading you astray. I give that book two thumbs up.