The Uglies

I just started a book called The Uglies by, Scott Westerfield. This book is very carefully written. YOu can tell that the author spent a long time finding out what exactly would happen when. This book is about a girl named Tally Youngblood. In this extraterrestrial world, people strive to be "pretty" When you are born you are a youngling and then at a certain age you turn into an ugly. They call us now "ugly", because we are normal. When you are an ugly you can still think. At the age of 16 you go through a surgery that turns you pretty, and changes any of your imperfections so that you are perfect, but are stupid. In this book, tally is the last of her friends to be an ugly. She's all alone until she turns 16. That is until she meets Shay. Shay likes to go outside the boundaries of any trick that Tally has ever done. Shay is trying to do anything she can to persuade Tally to come and live with her in the wild in a mysterious village where everybody is ugly. Tally has the option of going against the current of society or going against it and put some adventure in her life, instead of turning pretty and being clueless forever.