As he improvises a daring yet ultimately plausible scheme to save his beloved city, Mitty makes a convincing transformation from sweet-natured slacker to bona fide hero. The protagonist's rash e-mail queries make him the target of a terrorist group that aims to harvest the smallpox virus from his body. Just to test this, Mitty and his dad would sometimes get a hot dog, sushi or a toothbrush at three a.m."). Hes making everybody else score, said Orange guard Trevor Cooney. (Wild as this plot element may seem, it is based on a recent, real-life event, as a closing author's note explains.) Though initially pleased to have averted academic disaster, an ominous fear grows in the boy: Did he ingest a portion of the scabs and could he now be incubating the smallpox virus? Mitty's realization that he may be a walking viral time bomb is neatly underscored by Cooney's affectionate rendering of his uniquely New York lifestyle ("Everything was always open. Amid all that late-game drama on Saturday stood Orange freshman point guard Tyler. Hunting for a topic for his biology research paper on infectious disease, Manhattan private schooler Mitty Blake picks up an antique textbook, discovers an envelope within its pages, and takes out its contents: scabs from a long-ago smallpox epidemic. ) rat-a-tat delivery and hairpin turns keep the pages turning in this attention-grabbing post-9/11 thriller.
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