The Uglies Trilogy

Summary: In this series (of which Uglies is the first book, Pretties is the second, and Specials is the third), Tally lives in a society where physical beauty is everything. In this society, everyone gets a surgery at age sixteen to make them beautiful, and then they are allowed to cross the river and live in a city full of “pretties.” Tally is excited for her sixteenth birthday and her surgery, but then she meets Shay, who shows her that the world of the pretties may not be such a great place after all.