A fresh repackaging of the bestselling Uglies boks...the series that started the whole dystopian trend!
Uglies Series
This young adult dystopian saga delves into a society obsessed with beauty and technology. The protagonist awakens to a world where drastic surgical alteration is the norm, and everyone is expected to achieve perfection. However, as she uncovers the dark secrets behind the seemingly utopian society, she questions the very nature of identity and freedom.
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Uglies. In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is uly
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Tally eagerly awaits her sixteenth birthday, when an operation will transform her from an 'Ugly' into a 'Pretty', granting her aesthetic perfection and a life of fun.
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Tally kann ihren 16. Geburtstag kaum erwarten, denn dann steht die für alle vorgesehene Schönheitsoperation an. Sie wird von einer Ugly zur Pretty werden, in New Pretty Town leben und keine Sorgen mehr haben. Tallys Freundin Shay dagegen sträubt sich gegen die Operation. Sie will nicht, dass andere über sie bestimmen. Als Shay flüchtet, lernt auch Tally die hässliche Seite der Pretty-Welt kennen. Denn die Behörden stellen sie vor eine furchtbare Wahl ...
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Tally Youngblood struggles to retain her mental acuity after undergoing the operation that transformed her into a Pretty. While in the renegade Ugly community, Tally learned that along with cosmetic enhancements, new Pretties are given brain lesions that leave them in a perpetual state of lazy vanity. Tally volunteered to take a drug developed to cure the lesions, but now that she is a Pretty, she has forgotten her promise. A coded message leads her to some pills and a letter that she wrote to herself before her transformation, and after swallowing the cure, she is catapulted into a dangerous new adventure, in which she discovers that the peace and happiness of Pretty society come with a terrible price. Riveting and compulsively readable, this action-packed sequel does not disappoint. Just as good as its predecessor, it will leave fans breathlessly waiting for the trilogy's final volume
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After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special," teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society from outside threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel colony New Smoke, Tally's former home
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A fresh repackaging of the bestselling Uglies books...the series that started the whole dystopian trend!
Exploring key themes such as complacency, conformity versus rebellion, and society's obsession with beauty, this collection of essays serves as an ideal introduction to the Uglies series. It offers thought-provoking insights that are designed to ignite student debate and deepen understanding of the narrative's complexities.
