Extra: Summary - Scott Westerfeld: Uglies
Three hundred years in the future, the government provides for everything, including plastic surgery operations. Everyone on their sixteenth birthday receives the “pretty” operation which transforms them into the society's standard of beautiful. After the operation, new Pretties cross the river that divides the city and lead a new life with no responsibilities or obligations.
Former cities have decayed after bacteria infected the world's petroleum, making it unstable. The old society, so dependent on oil, fell apart when cars and oil fields exploded and food could no longer be transported. People who lived before this catastrophe are called "Rusties."
Tally Youngblood is almost sixteen. Like every other Ugly, she awaits the operation but she discovers the operation also causes lesions in the brain to make the people “pretty-minded.” Horrified, Tally decides to rebel against the system.
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