Uglies

Tally has grown up in a world where everyone, on their sixteenth birthday, gets an operation that makes their faces and bodies perfect. After the operation they are known as a pretty, and live in New Pretty Town and live a life of fun and partying. Before they are known as an ugly. Tally cannot wait to turn sixteen and join the prettys and have fun. Shortly before the operation Tally has always dreamt about, she becomes friends with a girl named Shay. Shay and her have the same birthday, so Tally is very excited that they will both turn pretty together. Little does Tally know that Shay does not want to turn pretty. She wants to run away to a town called The Smoke, a secret town for people who refuse to have the operation. When Shay runs away to The Smoke after Tally refuses to go with her, Tally is given an option by Special Cicumstances, the secret police, to either betray her friend and help them find The Smoke or remain ugly for the rest of her life. To find out what choice Tally makes, read Uglies by Scott Westerfeld.