~ Trade Paperback

~ Winner of the Golden Duck Award for Young Adult (Hal Clement Award) - 2006, Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award - 2007, Lincoln Award - 2007, and the Prix Et-lisez-moi - 2009

In Tally Youngblood’s world, looks matter.  Living in a society created to function with perfect-looking people who never have a chance to think for themselves, she's blindly content to go ahead with her upcoming operation to become a Pretty.  However when her friend Shay runs away, Tally learns about another side of the world she once admired, and it isn't so pretty . . . 

Uglies is the first installment of Scott Westerfeld’s NYT bestselling and award-winning 'Uglies' series, the global phenomenon commonly credited with starting the modern young adult dystopian trend.