In Scott Westerfeld’s young adult sci-fi trilogy, Uglies, Pretties, and Specials, Tally Youngblood starts out as a rebel against the institution.
In Tally’s world, all teens have a special operation when they turn sixteen. They are made into Pretties with supermodel-gorgeous faces and bodies. Tally, though, chooses to join the rebels and keep the way she looks. This means, she is an Ugly.
By the third book of the trilogy, Specials, published by Simon Pulse in 2006, Tally ends up being turned into a Special – a fighting machine, “dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast” (Westerfeld). She is programmed to complete missions successfully, without question. But Tally still hears a small voice in her head and a small ache in her heart. Somehow, she hasn’t been completely transformed. Her struggle is to decide whether she will listen to that voice and begin to think for herself again, or whether she will fulfill her destiny as a Special.
Scott Westerfeld has two amazing websites that give information about the author and all of his books:
http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/
http://www.scottwesterfeld.com/books/uglies.htm
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