Uglies by Scott Westerfeild

In todays society, girls care about how they look more then they care about politics. Eating disorders are on the rise and more and more people are heading under the knife to get that "perfect body". In this book this sort of behaviour is not only encouraged, but compulsory at the age of 16. At this magical age you are transformed from an "ugly" which to you and me is an average looking person and into a "Pretty".

Tally Yougblood is a girl who can not wait until her 16th birthday so that she can join her best friend in new pretty town, in the last few weeks leading up to this day she meets a girl called Shay while Tally escaped from breaking into New Pretty Town. Shay is an ugly who has the thirst for trouble just like Tally. It becomes increasingly aware that even though the girls share a lot of common interest with each other, Shay isn't as excited about becoming Pretty as Tally is and runs away. 

Tally is taken to "Special Circumstances" and is told that she can not become pretty unless she brings back her friend. This is the start of Tally's journey into finding out more about the place she grew up in and the place that embrace the averageness of humanity and fight for the right to be left "Ugly". Tally soon finds out what it's actually like to become pretty and chooses to remain an ugly at a great cost of never seeing her friends again. 

This is a beautiful novel about a girl coming of age and realizing that beauty comes from within. I believe that every teenage girl across the world should read this novel and realise that they are beautiful just the way that they are.