The Uglies book list includes a book review and study guide.

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There will be a lot of discussion about beauty, conformity, and technology in this future society.The way we see it now, the way the Pretties view it, and how the inhabitants of the Smoke saw it all bring up the environmental cost of our lifestyle.

It raises questions about whether making everyone pretty will really "even the playing field" to diminish discrimination and whether altering someone's perception and thinking is what really does it.The high price of perfection is reflected in the way people become pretty.The environmental impact of our world is explored in the book, as well as how important individual freedoms are and what people are willing to do for them.

The main character is placed in a position that requires her to be brave, fearless, and strong.She more than makes up for her mistake through self sacrifice, even though she should come clean with her new friends about how she found them.Shay is a strong girl character who questions authority and its wrongheaded ideals.Tally and Shay play a lot of tricks and sneak out at the beginning of the book, but the behavior seems to be expected of an "ugly" person.

There was a skirmish and a sad death.A woman is knocked out after being hit in the head.The details of an operation are gruesome.Characters are kidnapped after being rounded up.There are a lot of near-falls on a fast- moving hoverboard.

Scott Westerfeld's Uglies is set in the future and deals with the obsession with hedonism in our culture.A minor character is killed in a fight.An operation is described.Girl characters are brave and stand up for what they believe in.

In a post apocalyptic world, at the age of 16, everyone is given an operation that makes their faces and bodies perfect.They used to be known as "uglies" and "pretties."They enjoy a life of partying and pleasure after the operation.The man can't wait.Shay tells her about the Smoke, a secret community of people who refuse to have an operation.When Shay runs away to join the Smoke, Tally is given a choice: Help the Specials find the smoke or stay ugly forever.

Scott Westerfeld has a balancing act in his book.He had a point to make when he decided to write a book about a futuristic society that celebrates beauty above all else, and that the world of the book is a not-so-logical extension of certain trends in today's society having to do with physical attractiveness.He allows the lives of the pretties enough appeal to make the argument two-sided and never hits the reader over the head with a message.

The argument is set inside a crackling story.A series of events that alert readers will be coming a hundred pages earlier, and they'll be frustrated that Tally falls into these circumstances.There is a race to the end.

The pursuit of beauty and mindless fun can be discussed by families.Is it wrong to want to be beautiful and have fun?Would you choose to be pretty?

Is the life of the Smokies better?How does the perception of their lifestyle change?

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