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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - review

Uglies is a great book set in a future earth where humans have learnt many things, and have made the world high tech and is meant to be brilliant to live in. In this world, you are an ugly with no purpose until you turn 16, then you have an operation to make you pretty and you are shipped off to New Pretty Town, where your only job is to have fun.

Tally is the youngest of her friends and the last to turn, and for a few weeks, alone in the ugly world. She is pleased to meet another girl, Shay, who also has yet to turn, and they teach each other all their tricks. Tally's looking forward to her new life until Shay runs away and Tally finds out what being pretty really does to you. Can Tally keep her friends in a world where she is told what to do?

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