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Tally Youngblood is living hundreds of years from now.  Scientists have figured out how to keep war from destroying the planet , but it comes with a price: being brainwashed.  Everybody over 16 in Tally's time must become beautiful through plastic surgery.  Who would protest that?  However, a pair of "pretty" scientists have observed that there is minor brain damage done to most people over 16 years old.  They find a cure to this "pretty minded-ness" and escape into the woods.  Dozens of young "ugly" rebels from the city escape to their encampment, called The Smoke, and learn to live in the wild like their ancestors.  After Tally's friend Shay escapes to the Smoke and Tally trys to follow after she decides to come with, she is caught by the authorities and forced to choose between betraying the Smoke or staying ugly for the rest of her life.  The choice she needs to make becomes harder when she meets and befriends the people living out there, and realizes that there is more to life than she thought.  What Tally does changes the entire world forever.

This book is amazing!  The other books in the series are Pretties, Specials and Extras.