Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they 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.
Uglies

Scott Westerfeld: Uglies (2005, Simon Pulse)
425 pages
English language
Published Nov. 15, 2005 by Simon Pulse.
Subjects
- Beauty, Personal -- Juvenile fiction.
- Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction.
- Science fiction.