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Genre
Story type
What it is about
- Teenage girls
- Personal Beauty
- Friendship
- Dystopias
- Comic books, strips
- Cartoons and comics
Kind of book
- Novel
Ages
- Young Adult
About this book
Its subjects in Open Library: Teenage girls, Personal Beauty, Friendship, Dystopias. It is book 1 of the Uglies series series and listed for an audience of young adults.
Where this comes from: Open Library · Wikidata · Open Library subject
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What both books share
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Uglies: "young adult fiction" (WD genre)
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What they share, at a glance
Uglies next to each book above. A dot means both books' records carry that fact.
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Uglies: the facts, checked
Each line names the page it was checked on and the date.
- First published
- First published in 2005. Source: Wikidata, checked November 6, 2026.
- Edition checked
- The edition checked here is a 406-page paperback from Simon & Schuster BFYR. Source: Library of Congress, checked November 6, 2026.
9781665940658 ... paperback ... 406 pages ... Simon & Schuster BFYR
- Awards and honors
- It received the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Young-Adult Novel in 2008. Source: Wikidata, citing gpi.noosfere.org, checked November 6, 2026.
How Uglies came to be
- Westerfeld expected a future in which many people could choose how they look. Source: scottwesterfeld.com, checked November 6, 2026.
lots of people will get to decide how they look
- He set out to write a world where such changes had become ordinary. Source: scottwesterfeld.com, checked November 6, 2026.
I wanted to write a future in which these technologies were fairly common
- In his story, the government makes everyone take one approved kind of pretty face. Source: scottwesterfeld.com, checked November 6, 2026.
the local government forces you to have an acceptable face
Where does Uglies sit in its series? See the reading order.
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