Uglies
Westerfeld, Scott2005
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Tally lives in a world where your sixteenth birthday brings aesthetic perfection: an operation which erases all your flaws, transforming you from an 'Ugly' into a 'Pretty'. She is on the eve of this important event, and cannot wait for her life to change. As well as guaranteeing supermodel looks, life as a Pretty seems to revolve around having a good time. But then she meets Shay, who is also fifteen - but with a very different outlook on life. Shay isn't sure she wants to be Pretty and plans to escape to a community in the forest - the Rusty Ruins - where Uglies go to escape ' turning'. Tally won't be persuaded to join her, as this would involve sacrificing everything she's ever wanted for a lot of uncertainty. When she is taken in for questioning on her birthday, however, Tally gets sent to the Ruins anyway - against her will. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she could ever imagine: find her friend Shay and turn her in, or never turn Pretty at all. What she discovers in the Ruins reveals that there is nothing 'pretty' about the transformations... And the choice Tally makes will change her world forever.
Main title:
Uglies / by Scott Westerfeld
Author:
Imprint:
New York : Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2005.2012
Collation:
425 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Any five books from this series may be read as Challenge books and up to five more can be read as personal choice books. Go to the online booklists for the PRC ID of the individual books in this series.
Audience:
SecondaryUsually read by students in Years 9, 10, or above.
Awards:
Georgia Peach Book Award Nominee for Honor book (2008) ; Golden Duck Award for Young Adult (Hal Clement Award) (2006). Ditmar Award Nominee for Best Novel (2006) ; South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult Book Award (2008).Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2007) ; Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (2007). Lincoln Award (2007), Prix Et-lisez-moi (2009) ; Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2008).
ISBN:
9780857079138 (paperback)9781442419810 (paperback)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
117370
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Teenage Fiction | WESTER n1 | Available |