Uglies by Scott Westerfield

Tally was a 15 year old girl that could not wait to turn 16. Her friend Peris, who was already 16, had moved to New Pretty Town, where all the pretties lived. In Uglyville, you were supposed to get an operation that would get you super gorgeous on your sixteenth birthday. But before that, all the uglies had to live there.

On the first 5 chapters, Tally tried to find Peris, her best friend, when she sneaked out at night and went to New Pretty Town. She had to face a lot of obstacles before she could find Peris. When she found him, she couldn’t believe it was him because he was so beautiful. He told her not to get in trouble, so she could be with him soon. When Tally was leaving New Pretty town, she found a girl named Shay. Shay had also sneaked out to go to New Pretty Town; she was a girl just like Tally, they both wanted to turn pretty and have fun like everybody else. But what Tally didn’t know was that Shay had a lot of fun even if she was an ugly. It was a good thing that both of them became friends, because they had no one else to spend time with but themselves. All of their friends had already turned pretty and they were the only ones left. Shay showed Tally a lot of things that Tally didn’t know; for example she thought her how to hover board, she took her outside of the city, a place where no one was supposed to go. The place that Shay wanted Tally to see was called The Ruins.

From chapters 8 to 10 on the book Uglies, it talked about The Ruins. The Ruins was a place where people lived, but it was destroyed. The people in the ruins were people like us. Some of the people were pretty, some of them were not, but all of them lived in the same city. There was no Uglyville or New Pretty Town. Everyone was treated the same and everyone had the same privileges.

When Shay discovered the Ruins, she thought it was an amazing place. She discovered a lot of new things that she didn’t know about. That’s why she wanted Tally to see it too. Tally was scared of that place because she didn’t know what had happened to the people that had once lived in that place. I think she was afraid because she didn’t know anything about The Ruins, she had been there in school trips but nobody had told her the things that Shay knew. Shay had a friend that lived near that place named David. David was a boy that knew a lot about the people that lived there and how they lived before the city was destroyed. David dint live in a place like Uglyville or New Pretty Town, he lived in a city called The Smoke. The Smoke was very different from the other cities. It was kind of like The Ruins, where there was no surgery or people being separated from pretties and uglies. When their birthday was about to come, Shay told Tally that she didn’t want to become pretty;