Uglies
About this book
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.
But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever. A very action-paced book; and a truly great read.
Uglies series · 4 books
In publication order- 1 Uglies 2005 This book
- 2 Pretties 2005
- 3 Specials 2006
- 4 Extras 2007
Subjects
- brainwashing
- cartoons and comics
- children's fiction
- comic books, strips
- comics & graphic novels, science fiction
- conformity
- dystopias
- fiction
- friendship
- friendship, fiction
- graphic novel
- graphic novels
- insurgency
- juvenile fiction
- large type books
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:paperback-graphic-books=2012-04-01
- personal appearance
- personal beauty
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- science fiction
- secrets
- tally (fictitious character)
- teenage girls
- teenagers
- young adult fiction