Description: In his young adult dystopian novel Specials, Scott Westerfeld offers readers a world where classism takes on a whole new meaning. It is the third book in a series preceded by Pretties and Uglies. Westerfeld’s third installment is set in a world that has been split into various cities that want nothing to do with each other. Tally Youngblood is a part of this world. In her city, kids are considered “ugly” until their sixteenth birthday. At that point, they undergo a procedure that transforms them into “Pretties,” but with a very distinct and important catch. A caveat of this transformation are special lesions surgically implanted into an individual to make them unintelligent. Once the procedure has been completed, the newly pretty-fied teenager joins the city with the other pretties without having any clue what’s been done to them. Tally is different. She realizes something has ben done to her that sets her apart from the others. It is at the end of Westerfeld’s previous book, Pretties that Tally undergoes the transformation that makes her a “Special”, and it is in this form that the reader finds her at the beginning of Specials.
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Book Title: Specials
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Fantasy & Magic, Action & Adventure / General, General, Social Themes / New Experience, Science Fiction
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Intended Audience: Young Adults
Publication Year: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
