Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Forget my break from YA dystopian fiction. I'm halfway through Uglies by Scott Westerfeld and loving it. This series will be a new edition to our library in Fall 2011, along with many others!

Here's a short descrtiption plucked from Scott Westerfeld's blog:

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Set in an Orwellian future in which teens undergo surgery on their sixteenth birthdays to become supermodel “pretty,” UGLIES is the story of Tally Youngblood, one such “ugly” teen who is forced by authorities to forgo her transformation until she infiltrates The Smoke, a community of rebels who choose to retain their appearance and live outside of normal society. Tally soon discovers appearance isn’t everything and her world is not all that it seems. (Retrieved on Friday, Aug. 5th from: http://scottwesterfeld.com/)

His blog announced recently that the movie is slated to become a major motion picture.
Check this out: Westerblog