Uglies
Author
Author
Series
Uglies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, when she will be transformed into a "pretty" whose only job is to have a great time, Shay befriends the Crims, a group of teens who refuse to take anything in society at face value.
2) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty, " sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
3) Specials
Author
Series
Uglies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When she is turned into a super-modelesque super-fighting machine, Tally, a former ugly, is ordered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid in a carefully engineered world of perfection where she refuses to play by the rules.
4) Extras
Author
Series
Uglies volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After rebel Tally Youngblood brings down the uglies/pretties/specials regime, fame, instead of beauty, becomes the new world order, and fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse embarks on a dangerous plan to boost her popularity ranking.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Simon Pulse ed.
Language
English
Description
Examines the fictional future world of the "Uglies," as created by the author, and details the technology, speech patterns, and social customs; and discusses the cliques--which includes the Crims, Cutters, tech-heads, and surge-monkeys--and more.