![]() She lives in a dorm room and day dreams about turning sixteen. The main character is named Tally Youngblood, and she is one of the uglies. There are littlies (who live with their parents until they are twelve), uglies (who live in a dorm until they are sixteen), new pretties (live in New Pretty Town and have no worries), middle pretties (join a profession), late pretties (also called crumblies they are parents who have gotten surgery to live into their two hundreds), and specials (optional and not spoken about very much). The populations is categorized into three groups. This leads to new inventions, such as hoverboards and rotating apartment buildings (so that its residents will never get tired of the view). ![]() There is more focus on nanotechnology, which manipulates matter. The series is set in a world three hundred years in the future. The books are appropriately titled: Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and Extras. ![]() The Uglies Saga has glamour, romance, and action compacted into four books. Like many science fiction book that are being published these days, Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is centered around a teenage girl. ![]()
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