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About the books Set in the not-so-distant future, the Uglies series is set in a world where beauty isn’t just at a premium – it’s mandatory. Every teen must undergo surgery at age sixteen to become supermodel beautiful. But after becoming pretty, it isn’t just teens’ faces that change – regular life is left behind for a life of fun and partying. Sounds great, no? Maybe until Tally Youngblood’s friends decide they want to keep their own faces, and the radical group learns everything that’s at stake… Tally is thrust into a world of manipulation, deception, and yet, amazing heroics and adventure in this fascinating and complex series.
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Crims "Being crim can change the world."-- Miki The Crims are one of the few cliques that started in Uglyville, about a year before Shay and Tally met. That group ran away to the Smoke, except for Zane and Shay, who chickened out. Zane restarted the clique in New Pretty Town, where Tally later joined. As Tally and Zane become famous for their bubbly exploits, the Crims expanded to become one of the largest cliques in New Pretty Town. Many of these new members wound up as Cutters under Shay's guidance (see "Cutters"). The Crims are most famous for their mass balloon escape from New Pretty Town, and although Zane was soon recaptured, he returned to find the Crims still thriving. Tricks and other forms of rebellion had at last become a part of pretty culture. The Crims became a vital conduit between Tally's city and the New Smoke, distributing the cure to tens of thousands of new and middle pretties. Once Dr. Cable was finally ousted from power, many Crims became, ironically, part of the new political leadership of Tally's city. But by that time, Zane, the Crims' founder, was dead, a tragic victim of the Diego War.
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