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Book Reports For Uglies By Scott Westerfeld

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Could you imagine living in a futuristic world where you were put into towns by how ugly or pretty you are? Uglies by Scott Westerfeld, is the first of three novels set in a futuristic world in which everyone is surgically altered at the age of sixteen to be pretty. A girl with the name of Tally is about to turn sixteen and is so eager to turn a pretty and move to New Pretty Town to see her best friend, But there is something that stands in her way. Tally meets a girl named Shay and she soon realizes that Shay is no ordinary girl. Shay seems a little different than Tally. Tally loves adventures and when she meets Shay it's almost like they are the same person. Tally was happy but she knew she wanted to become a pretty to see her true best friend. Tally was tired of being an ugly and she wanted to become a pretty and live the lives they did where they didn't have a worry in the world and could just party and be pretty. Tally …show more content…

The Warden's voice stumbled. Didn't this beat everything? A pretty and an ugly taking a stoll. The Warden came closer, confusion all over his middle- pretty face Tally smiled. At least She was causing trouble to the end. I’m Tally YoungBlood she said. Make me …show more content…

Tally was devastated and hadn’t seen him since he left for New Pretty Town. This is also universal because loss is hard especially when you lose a friend. The fact that Tally had to deal with that is awful. Tally once said “We were best friends, what happened?” Tally wanted to be with her best friend and he left to turn pretty and all she wanted was to turn pretty. Many people lose someone they love or care about and wish to see them again just like Tally wanted to see Peris. Peris said “ Why didn't you just wait Tally?”, but she didn't want to. Tally missed Peris and she just wanted to see

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