‘Tech heads’ flaunt their latest gadgets, ‘kickers’ spread gossip and trends, and ‘surge monkeys’ are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. Without those strict roles and rules, the world is in a complete cultural renaissance. It’s a few years after rebel Tally Youngblood took down the uglies/pretties/specials regime. Did she really promise to give all this up? Is she bound by a promise she made when she was a different person? If there is anything left of the old Tally, how will she fight her way out to keep her word and help her friends? When someone from her Ugly life shows up with a message, Tally has a hard time listening. She doesn’t think she needs any kind of cure at all.

The new, Pretty Tally is totally happy right where she is. But in the second book of the Uglies series, Tally’s Pretty. She vowed to accept the operation, but with the understanding that her friends on the outside would rescue her, and let her be the guinea pig for the experimental and highly dangerous cure they’re developing. Just before her birthday, Tally discovered that turning Pretty comes with a terrible price. In Tally’s world, your 16th birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellant Ugly into a stunningly attractive Pretty, and catapults you into a high tech paradise where your only job is having a really good time. But fame and popularity can be just as dangerous as extreme beauty. Boundless human creativity, new technologies, and old dangers have been unleashed upon the world. But when she s offered a chance to forever improve civilization, will she be able to overcome her brainwashing? The answer is evident years later in Extras, after the Pretty regime has ended. And what little s left of the old Tally is further compromised in Specials, because Tally has been transformed into a fierce fighting machine. In Pretties, Tally has forgotten all about her Ugly life, and when she s reminded, she has a hard time listening. She rebels against the surgery that will make her a Pretty, but ultimately succumbs.

Tally’s adventures begin in Uglies, where she learns the truth about what life as a Pretty really means. Now all four books feature fresh new covers and will reach an even wider audience. The Uglies series has more than 3 million books in print, has been translated into twenty seven languages, and spent more than fifty weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

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