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Uglies

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Series: Uglies Vol. 1

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Annotation: When Tally's friend Shay leaves their society's false values of image by joining a non-conforming community, Tally questions the ethics involved in spying on them to attain the "pretty" status she been anticipating.

Catalog Number: #1799

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Pages: 425 p.

Available: Yes

ISBN: 0-689-86538-4

Dewey: F

LCCN: 2004106866

Dimensions: 18 cm.

Binding Type: Perma-Bound

Subject Heading: Individuality. Fiction, Personal appearence. Fiction

Language: english

Reviewing Agencies: ALA Best Book For Young Adults, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal Starred Review, Starred Review ALA Booklist, Voice of Youth Advocates, Wilson's High School Catalog, Wilson's Junior High Catalog

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Word Count: 87,274

Reading Level: 5.2

Interest Level: 7-12

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.2 / points: 13.0 / quiz: 86097 / grade: MG

Reading Counts!: reading level: 5.6 / points:19.0

Lexile: 770

When Tally's friend Shay leaves their society's false values of image by joining a non-conforming community, Tally questions the ethics involved in spying on them to attain the "pretty" status she been anticipating. In Tally's world, a 16th birthday brings an operation, transforming one from a repellent Ugly to an attractive Pretty. Turning Pretty is all Tally has ever wanted. Her friend Shay would rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally must make a terrible choice. Original.

ALA Booklist

"*Starred Review* Fifteen-year-old Tally?s eerily harmonious, postapocalypt society gives extreme makeovers to teens on their sixteenth birthdays, supposedly conferring equivalent evolutionary advantages to all. When a top-secret agency threatens to leave Tally ugly forever unless she spies on runaway teens, she agrees to infiltrate the Smoke, a shadowy colony of refugees from the ?tyranny of physical perfection.? At first baffled and revolted by the rebels? choices, Tally eventually bonds with one of their leaders and begins to question the validity of institutionalized mutilation--especially as it becomes clear that the government?s surgeons may be doing more than cosmetic nipping and tucking. Although the narrative?s brisk pace is more successful in scenes of hover-boarding action than in convincingly developing Tally?s key relationships, teens will sink their teeth into the provocativ questions about invasive technology, image-obsessed society, and the ethical quandaries of a mole-turned-ally. These elements, along with the obvious connections to reality programs such as Miami Slice, will surely cause this ingenious series debut to cement Westerfeld?s reputation for high-concept YA fiction that has wide appeal. Suggest M. T. Anderson?s Feed (2002)and Westerfeld?s own So Yesterday (2004)to readers antsy for the next installment."

School Library Journal

Gr 6 Up-Tally Youngblood lives in a futuristic society that acculturates its citizens to believe that they are ugly until age 16 when they'll undergo an operation that will change them into pleasure-seeking "pretties." Anticipating this happy transformation, Tally meets Shay, another female ugly, who shares her enjoyment of hoverboarding and risky pranks. But Shay also disdains the false values and programmed conformity of the society and urges Tally to defect with her to the Smoke, a distant settlement of simple-living conscientious objectors. Tally declines, yet when Shay is found missing by the authorities, Tally is coerced by the cruel Dr. Cable to find her and her compatriots-o remain forever "ugly." Tally's adventuresome spirit helps her locate Shay and the Smoke. It also attracts the eye of David, the aptly named youthful rebel leader to whose attentions Tally warms. However, she knows she is living a lie, for she is a spy who wears an eye-activated locator pendant that threatens to blow the rebels' cover. Ethical concerns will provide a good source of discussion as honesty, justice, and free will are all oppressed in this well-conceived dystopia. Characterization, which flirts so openly with the importance of teen self-concept, is strong, and although lengthy, the novel is highly readable with a convincing plot that incorporates futuristic technologies and a disturbing commentary on our current public policies. Fortunately, the cliff-hanger ending promises a sequel.-Susan W. Hunter, Riverside Middle School, Springfield, VT Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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