| Authors: |
Westerfeld, Scott
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Beauty, Personal -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Simon Pulse, 2005. |
| Description: |
425 p. ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0689865384 (pbk.) |
| Series: |
Uglies ; 1
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| Rating: |
5 out of 5: They loved it |
| Community reviews |
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Plot not Character by atrescott |
| Although plot is fast moving, Tally is not a well developed character. Very interesting idea though. Plot is only thing that pushed me to read the second in the series. |
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uglies by kmcarter |
| Book 1 in the Uglies series.
Tally young blood is away a boarding school waiting for the day she will become perfect. Tallys is not like the other girls , she likes to be differant. this is a great sci/ adventure |
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Cool idea and an interesting plot by hazey |
| Pretty exciting with a stunning truth near the end of the book... lesions!! |
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| Summary: |
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? 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. |