The Uglies Series In Order: How To Read Scott Westerfeld’s Books.
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The first installment of the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series was a global phenomenon that started this dystopian trend.
What is The Uglies Series About? What You Need to Know:
Tally can’t wait for her 16th birthday. She’ll have the operation that will transform her from an unattractive ugliness into a stunningly beautiful pretty in just a few weeks. And as a pretty girl, she’ll be catapulted into a hi-tech paradise where her sole job is to have fun!
The Uglies Books in Order: How to read Scott Westerfeld’s Series:
There are four books in The Uglies series and this is the correct sequence for reading them.
Uglies: Uglies, Book 1
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Tally lives in the world where your 16th birthday brings aesthetic perfection: an operation that removes all your flaws, transforming you from an “ugly” into a “pretty”. She is on the cusp of this important event and can’t wait for her life to be different. As well as guaranteeing that models look beautiful, life as a pretty girl seems to revolve around enjoying yourself. But then she meets another girl named Shay, who is also fifteen years old, but has a completely different outlook on life.
Pretties: Uglies, Book 2
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Your 16th birthday brings an Operation that turns you from a repulsive Ugly into a stunning beauty and catapults you into a high-technology paradise, where your only task is having a really good fun. Before her birthday, Tally found out that turning Pretty comes with an awful cost. She vowed to accept her operation but with the understanding she’d be rescued by her friends on the outside and allowed to be the guinea pig of their experimental and highly dangerous cure.
Specials: Uglies, Book 3
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Special Circumstances has always made Tally feel uneasy, but she never knew why. Back then Specials had a reputation for being terrifyingly beautiful, dangerously strong and breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretty people might never meet a special person. But Tally’s has always been extraordinary. Now, in the third book of the series, Tally has been transformed into a Superamphedonic Fighting Machine, designed to keep the ugly people down and the pretty people stupid.
Extras: Uglies, Book 4
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Extras, the final novel in the Uglies trilogy, takes place several years after the mind-rain, a few earth-shaking months during which the entire planet woke up. The cure has spread throughout the world, and the regime that kept humanity in an endless state of bubble headedness is now over. New technologies, old dangers, and boundless human creativity have been unleashed upon the planet. Cities are becoming increasingly different from one another as they each carve out their own path into this uncertain future.