Scott Westerfeld
1) Uglies
Author
Series
Uglies volume 1
Language
English
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Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's...
2) Extras
Author
Series
Uglies volume 4
Language
English
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In an alternative civilization where the social status of each person is monitored and rated and anyone can drop from celebrity to nobody, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse's popularity ranking is so low her only chance of moving up is to find a good story, so when she meets a group of girls who hide an explosive secret, Aya decides to expose the group and unknowingly puts her own life in danger.
3) Specials
Author
Series
Uglies volume 3
Language
English
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Description
After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special," teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society from outside threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel colony New Smoke, Tally's former home. "Special Circumstances": The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor -- frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly...
4) Afterworlds
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Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
5) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
Language
English
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Tally's transformation to perfect and popular including her totally hot boyfriend is everything she always wanted. But beneath the fun and freedom something is wrong and now Tally has to fight for her life because what she knows has put her in danger with the authorities.
6) Swarm
Author
Series
Zeroes volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As they celebrate the opening of their underground nightclub, the Zeroes, six teenagers with unique abilities, learn about the sinister power of Swarm, who uses a crowd's rage to kill--and who loves killing Zeroes.
Author
Series
Spill zone volume 1
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
211 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone's twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre...
8) Zeroes
Author
Series
Zeroes volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
546 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, teens Scam, Crash, Flicker, Anonymous, Bellwether, and Kelsie, all born in the year 2000 and living in Cambria, California, have superhuman abilities that give them interesting but not heroic lives until they must work as a community to respond to a high stakes crisis.
9) Youngbloods
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Frey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice -- and using it to question everything her family stood for. Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world. But for over a decade, she's kept to the shadows, allowing her myth to grow even as she receded. Now she sees that the revolution she led has not created a stable world. Freedom,...
Author
Series
Spill zone volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
221 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Strange manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. Addison got close enough to the Spill Zone to touch it, literally. She survived the encounter, but came back changed. It turns out she's not alone. North Korea has its own Spill Zone, and a young man named Don Jae is the only one who made it out alive...
11) Nexus
Author
Series
Zeroes volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
483 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the shocking conclusion to Swarm, the zeroes are scattered, on the run, and desperate. They re up against challenges from within and from the world around them, and one thing is certain an epic showdown is guaranteed.
Author
Series
Uglies volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After befriending the Crims, a group of fellow teens who refuse to take anything in society at face value, Shay starts to question the whole concept of being transformed from an ordinary "Ugly" into a paragon of beauty. And as the Crims explore beyond the monitored borders of Uglyville into the forbidden, Shay must choose between the perks of being Pretty and the rewards of being real.