Uglies

Title: Uglies
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Reviewer: Katie

Summary:
Tally Youngblood will be turning 16 soon, which means she will become a pretty! But before her birthday she finds a new friend, Shay, there birthdays are on the same day so they can turning into pretties together. But Shay doesn’t want to be a pretty, so she runs away to a place called the “Smoke”, a place where uglies live, out in the wild. Its there birthday but Tally can’t be turned into a pretty yet because she has to go find Shay or she will never be a pretty. She follows Shay’s clues to the smoke and gets there safe. Dr. Cable gives Tally a locket which has a tracking device in it, that needs to be set off so the “specials” can find them. Tally meets David, a guy who has never lived/ been in a city before, Tally starts liking him so she wants to stay at the smoke, and she throws the locket in the fire which sets it off. The “Specials” come and capture everyone but David and Tally. Shay, Az and Maddy, and all the others get locked up. David and Tally try to rescue them without getting caught. They find them and figure out that David’s dad Az was killed. Maddy found a way to cure the “bubbleheads”, pretties. So tally had a plan, she would go and turn into a pretty and then give her the cure to see if it works before they give it to everybody else. So Tally and Shay go to the pretty town to try and get Tally caught. A hover car came flying over them and noticed that Tally was an ugly and then Tally said “I’m Tally Youngblood, make me pretty.”
The End!!

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Uglies

Title: Uglies
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Reviewer: Alud
Tally Youngblood is about to turn sixteen, and is excited. In Tally's world when a boy or girl turns sixteen, they are given an operation that turns them from "ugly" to a "pretty".
Tally befriends with a girl named Shay, who is also an "ugly". They both discover they have so much in common. They were the best of friends. Tally would always talk about someday becoming "pretty". But Shay isn't sure if she wants to become "pretty". She'd rather stay "ugly" and live in the forest. Shay told Tally that she was running away to the Smoke (a place in the forest where "uglies" runaway to live) and asks her to come with. Tally decided that she wanted to stay and have the operation. Shay was sad, hurt, and understood that Tally wouldn't go. Shay asked Tally no to tell anybody that she was going to live at the Smoke, Tally promised Shay. They both said their good-byes.

It was finally Tally's sixteenth birthday and was ready for the operation of becoming "pretty". Tally's operation did not proceed. Instead she was at Special Circumstances. Dr. Cable (a cruel beautiful "special") met with Tally and told her that they know about Shay running away to the Smoke. Tally was suprised. Dr. Cable told her that she becomes a spy for Special Circumstances to betray Shay, arrest the people living in the smoke, and have the operation, or, refuse to be their spy for Special Circumstances and stay as an "ugly" forever. Will Tally betray Shay and the people living in the Smoke, or, refuse and stay an "ugly" for the rest of her life? Read the book if you want to find out what happens next.
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