Uglies

Our book club book for February was Uglies. Written by Scott Westerfeld, Uglies is a book full of adventure, fun, danger, and love for family and friends.

Tally lives in the future where everything is given to them by the city. In the future people are divided into groups based on your age, and your looks. Children called “littlies” and are supposed to be cute. Used as an insult, teenagers up to the age of sixteen are known as “uglies.” At age sixteen, uglies are supposed to have a surgery that makes them pretty. When Tally meets Shay --a girl who wants to remain ugly-- she is exposed to a world called the Smoke where she doesn't have to be a "pretty" or an "ugly", Tally could just be Tally and people could just be themselves. But of course like any story, there are bad guys called the Special Circumstances who don't want people to like the way they look. The Special Circustances are determined to find the Smoke and it is all up to Tally to keep the location of the Smoke a secret.

I would give Uglies a 4 out of 5 stars rating. I thought that the book was fun and excting to read but I think that the author could have shortened the amount of detail in Tally's adventure to the Smoke. Here are our questions for this book!:

Question 1: To keep up her fake reputation, in the Smoke, Tally had to lie over and over again. How did you feel whan she was doing that? Have you ever been in a situation similar to this?

Question 2: Tally's adventures in Uglies were big and dangerous. What, for you, was one of the most exiting arts to read about? Why?

Question 3: Scott westerfeld was very detailed with his writing. While reading the book Uglies, we were left only with our imagination. What did you imagine.

Question 4: When the special circumstances comes to destroy the smoke, Shay is mad at Tally. If you were Shay, would your reactions be any different? 

Question 5: The Rusty civilization collapsed because of there dependence on oil and gasoline. In what way is your life dependent on oil and gasoline? How easily would you survive if it all dissappeared one day?