num_pages: 425
description: Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that?Tally Youngblood is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her driver's license — for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.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. She'd rather risk life on the outside and urges Tally to defect with her.When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world — and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.
language: English
title: Uglies
titlecomplete: Uglies (Uglies, #1)
characters: Tally Youngblood, Dr. Cable, Shay, Peris, David Strorm
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Teen, Young Adult, Romance, Childrens, Fantasy, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic
ratings_count: 646774
series: Uglies 
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Georgia Peach Book Award
category: Honor book, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Golden Duck Award
category: Young Adult (Hal Clement Award), awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Ditmar Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: South Carolina Book Award
category: Young Adult Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Lincoln Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Prix Et-lisez-moi, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Gateway Readers Award
publisher: Scholastic