At Mountain View Middle School, everyone knows everyone else's business. Green. Yellow. Red. Regardless of what is happening in your life, your status and access are determined by the card that hangs around your neck. Principal Fowler delights in giving demerits and knocking her prisoners students down a color. Five discouraged and beaten down students are thrown together one day when everything goes wrong, and they are locked in a closet during a tornado warning. Five strangers enter, but they leave as one-determined to bring down the system. Color Coded is a don't-miss adventure of misfits and mettle in the vein of The Breakfast Club meets Louis Sachar's Holes.