![]() ![]() ![]() On your sixteenth birthday, how would you feel about being forced to have the surgery to become pretty? Would you feel like Tally - looking forward to being beautiful and bubbly - or like Shay - wanting to escape the surgery and stay ugly, but remain herself? If your best friend asked you to not have the surgery, what do think you would have chosen to do? Uglies was named a 2006 Best Book for Young Adults by the Young Adult Library Services Association, a division of the American Library Association. Westerfeld's books have won many nominations and awards as well as a huge fan following of teens everywhere. ![]() Tally's decisions bring her to both locations as well as others she'd never dreamed of, but they also get her in and out of trouble, and force her to grow and change and learn. Living in a future where sixteen-year-olds are surgically transformed from "uglies" to "pretties," Tally Youngblood struggles with a choice: to become beautiful and content forever, or to leave the world she knows and keep her own face. ![]()
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