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Uglies
Scott Westerfeld

A dystopian novel about conformity and otherness set in a world where every teenager is transformed from an “ugly” into a “pretty” with the help of extreme cosmetic surgery when they turn 16. 15-year-old Tally can’t wait, but her friends Shay and David show her the downsides of their society, which causes her to rebel.

Book one of the Uglies trilogy.

/ · · 2005

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Westerfeld, Scott. Uglies. Simon Pulse, 2005. 406 pp., ISBN 9781442419810

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