Uglies
Uglies Quartet - Book I
by Scott Westerfeld
Tally Youngblood is an Ugly, and she lives in Uglyville in a near future where there are
no wars and everything is perfect. She won’t have to wait long to join her best friend,
Peris, as when she turns sixteen, she will be able to have the surgery to turn her into a
Pretty and be able to party as much as she wants to. But she has made a new friend called
Shay, and Shay doesn’t want to become a Pretty. She wants them both to go to the Rusty Ruins,
a hidden forest community where people don’t have the surgery. Then the authorities offer
Tally a choice, and it is the worst choice possible...
This is a bestselling book that is sure to appeal to anybody who is nauseated by the
modern obsession with physical beauty and bland uniformity. It is also the ideal read for
any teen who thinks size zero is the only size to be, and who buys into the world as
presented by glossy magazines. Being Pretty in this book comes at a high price and will
make anybody think about what truly matters about the way we are. Told in a direct, simple
style that will be accessible to anybody of ten and over, it is also likely to appeal to
adults, and to boys as well as girls—this is science fiction after all, and intelligent,
thought-provoking stuff. |
The Book |
Simon and Schuster |
March 2010 |
Paperback |
1847389066 / 9781847389060 |
Teenage Science Fiction / Near future America |
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The Reviewer |
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewed 2010 |
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