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Uglies Book Report
“Uglies” is about a place that separated two towns called Uglyville and Pretty Town. People who are ugly lived in Uglyville and people who were pretty lived in Pretty Town. A girl named Tally Youngblood had been waiting all her life to turn 16 because that is the age where she is able to turn pretty. To become pretty you have to go through plastic surgery and they will fix up everything to make you picture perfect. When you have become a pretty, your whole lifestyle changes. You live with no regrets, you party every night, you are always happy, and you don’t really remember the days when you were ugly. Tally Youngblood wanted to live that life. One day she met a girl named Shay, they met each other hiding behind bushes in Pretty Town because

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