Uglies

=Uglies by Scott Westerfield= Uglies by Scott Westerfield is a science fiction novel about a futuristic civilazation. Tally Youngblood the main character is 15. In her world when you become 16 you have an operation to make you "pretty".Tally can not wait to get the operation ,but before tally can turn 16 she meets Shay, a girl exactly her age but does not want the operation. A week before the girls birthday Shay runs away to an civilazation outside of city limits called the smoke. Then the authorities of the city "The Specials" people of the city rarely see them and some of them don't think they exsit but they come to Tally. They ask Tally to go find Shay or they won't make her pretty. She goes to find Shay at the Smoke. When she arrives she plans to contact the city immediately but does not. Tally ends up really like the Smoke and plans to stay. It was to late the Specials were on there way they attacked the Smoke the next morning. Scott Westerfield has written three more books for this series Pretties,Specials,and Extras. He got his inspiration from the impact beauty puts on us now. How every strives to be "pretty" and the crazy things some people will do to acheive it.