Uglies: Shay's Story (Graphic Novel)

"This whole game is just designed to make us hate ourselves."--Shay

Uglies told Tally Youngblood's version of life in Uglyville and the budding rebellion against the Specials. Now comes an exciting graphic novel revealing new adventures in the Uglies world--as seen through the eyes of Shay, Tally's rebellious best friend who's not afraid to break the rules, no matter the cost.

A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, Shay eagerly awaits her turn to become a Pretty--a rite-of-passage operation called "the Surge" that transforms ordinary Uglies into paragons of beauty. Yet after befriending the Crims, a group of fellow teens who refuse to take anything in society at face value, Shay starts to question the whole concept. And as the Crims explore beyond the monitored borders of Uglyville into the forbidden, ungoverned wild, Shay must choose between the perks of being Pretty and the rewards of being real.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Published: 03/06/2012
ISBN: 9780345527226
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.79w x 0.69d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/05/2012 pg. 57
Booklist 03/15/2012 pg. 43
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2012 pg. 187 - Recommended - Readable

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 150737 / Uglies: Shay's Story
Reading Level: 3.2 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 1