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John Millen

Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

Published by Simon and Schuster

ISBN 1 416 91104 9

TALLY YOUNGBLOOD can't wait until her  16th birthday. She knows she will receive the best of all possible gifts.

Tally lives in a future society where everyone is ugly until they reach their 16th  birthday. Then they undergo a government operation that turns ugliness into beauty.

At 16,  after the operation, lucky teenagers become Pretties and move to a new home in New Pretty Town. What more could anyone want?

In New Pretty Town, life is perfect. Tally cannot understand why her friend Shay does not want to have the government's operation.

When Shay vanishes, Tally suddenly comes face to face with the hideous truth of what really goes on in New Pretty Town.

What Tally discovers about being pretty is a long way from what she originally believed.

Uglies is a science fiction novel that stimulates the brain as well as the imagination.

Along with an exciting plot, it throws up many questions that make it much more than the sci-fi also-ran it might have been.



Girl faces up to ugly truth