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New York Simon Pulse c2005.
Description
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
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Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Honor — 2008)
Soaring Eagle Book Award (Nominee — 2007)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2008)
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2007)
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee — 2007)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2010)
Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2008)
Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award (Nominee — Teen — 2007)
Nutmeg Book Award (Nominee — Teen — 2009)
Great Lakes Great Books Award (Honor Book — 2008)
Iowa Teen Award (Nominee — 2008)
Aurealis Award (Shortlist — 2005)
Gateway Readers Award (Nominee — 3rd Place — 2008)
Garden State Teen Book Award (Winner — Grades 6-8 — 2008)
Nevada Young Readers' Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2008)
Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award (Nominee — 2007)
South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards (Nominee — 2004)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Nominee — 2008)
Colorado Blue Spruce Award (Nominee — 2008)
Ditmar Award (Shortlist — Novel — 2006)
Florida Teens Read Award (Nominee — 2008)
Otherwise Award (Long list — 2005)
Virginia Readers' Choice (Nominee — High School — 2008)
Golden Archer Award (Nominee — 2008)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — High School — 2008)
Isinglass Teen Read Award (Nominee — 2007)
Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (Honor Book — 2009)
Rhode Island Teen Book Award (Nominee — 2007)
Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (Winner — 2008)
South Carolina Book Awards (Nominee — Young Adult Book Award — 2008)
Prix Ado-Lisant (2009)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 2006)
CCBC Choices (2006)
OYAN Book Rave (2006)
Texas Lone Star Reading List (2007)
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Media reviews
The Uglies books are the perfect parables of adolescent life, where adult-imposed milestones, rituals, and divide-and-rule tactics amp children's natural adolescent insecurities into a full-blown, decade-long psychosis.