I'm very excited. The first book of one of my favorite series (why haven't I done a Series Spotlight on it yet??) is available for FREE!Yes, for one month only, Scott Westerfeld's Uglies will be available for free download here while we all wait on the edge of our seats for his new book, Leviathan.
You haven't heard of Uglies? A quick summary from the publisher (which is better than anything I could have come up with on the spot):
"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 new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever."
Check out Uglies (for free!) here or in the library. You'll be glad you did.
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