Worlds of Terrorism: Learning through Young Adult Literature

Code Orange, another Caroline Cooney novel, begins when Mitty Blake, a high-schooler in Mr Lynch's advance biology class, trys to find a topic for his limit paper on a disease. Mitty wants to research bioterrorism in the Ottilie Lundgren 2001 anthrax case on the other hand cannot as Mr. Lynch requires four works as resources. Mitty's mother, an interior decorator, specializes in creating libraries for nation and thus buys and gathers elderly books. She has recently bought the library of a actual old, now deceased doctor. At the Blake region home that weekend, Mitty investigates several of these novel acquisitions. In Principles of Contagious Diseases he finds an covering marked "Scabs-VM epidemic, 1902, Boston" hand-written with a fountain commit to paper Opening the envelope, he handles the scabs and they crush causing him to sneeze. Because this happens upon page 11, readers feel anxious during the remainder of the work as Mitty researches to find without what "VM" means, whether or not he will contact a contagious disease, and finally whether or not he could infect and kill everyone in fresh York City.