The first installment of Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series-a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.

Tally is going to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. In just a couple weeks she’ll have the operation that may convert her from a repellent unattractive into a stunningly attractive pretty. And as a fairly, she’ll end up being catapulted into a high-tech heaven where her only job is certainly to have a great time.

But Tally’s new friend Shay isn’t sure she really wants to become a pretty. When Shay runs away, Tally discovers about a totally new side of the quite world-and it isn’t very fairly. The authorities offer Tally an option: discover her friend and convert her in, or by no means turn pretty whatsoever. Tally’s choice changes her world permanently.