title: Specials (Uglies Trilogy, Book 3)
author:  Scott Westerfeld 
description: Grade 8 UpThis final installment in the series is a warning of the dangers of overconsumption and conformity. Set some time in the future, after a human-made bacteria destroyed the modern world, the trilogy tells of new cities established and tightly controlled through brainwashing and a series of operations leading to a compliant society. Tally Youngblood, the 16-year-old protagonist, learns in the first two books that free will and truth are more important than a false sense of security. In <i>Specials</i>, she has become an elite fighting machine, fully enhanced with nanotechnology and super-fast reflexes, and made to work as a Special Circumstances agent for the nameless city that she fled. As in the first two books, much of the story takes place with characters whizzing through the air on hoverboards, but Tally and her friends are in for some harsh realities here. Readers who enjoyed <i>Uglies</i> and <i>Pretties</i> (both S &amp; S, 2005) will not want to miss <i>Specials</i>, but those who have not read those books will not understand much of what is happening. Westerfeld's themes include vanity, environmental conservation, Utopian idealism, fascism, violence, and love. In this trilogy, the author calls for a revolution in our hearts and mindsthink <i>The Matrix</i>.<i>Corinda J. Humphrey, Los Angeles Public Library</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  Uglies Book 4
  
  
  
  
  
  Scott Westerfeld
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To everyone who wrote to me to reveal the secret definition of the word
  “trilogy.”
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  Part I WATCH THIS
  
  
  DOWN AND OUT
  
  
  TECH-HEADS
  
  
  UNDERGROUND
  
  
  AUDITION
  
  
  BIG BROTHER
  
  
  FRIZZ
  
  
  SLY GIRLS
  
  
  SURFING
  
  
  TUNNEL
  
  
  RESCUE
  
  
  RADICAL HONESTY
  
  
  INITIATION
  
  
  TURBULENCE
  
  
  THE MOUNTAIN
  
  
  THE HIDDEN
  
  
  ESCAPE
  
  
  SHAFT
  
  
  AIR PRESSURE
  
  
  SLIME QUEEN
  
  
  MASS DRIVER
  
  
  Part II CITY KILLERS
  
  
  BANNED
  
  
  TESTING
  
  
  SHAFTED
  
  
  JOYRIDE
  
  
  KICKING IT
  
  
  TRUTH-SLANTING
  
  
  FEEDING FRENZY
  
  
  PINNED
  
  
  RUN AND HIDE
  
  
  THE WISDOM OF THE CROWD
  
  
  PAPARAZZI
  
  
  SHUFFLE MANSION
  
  
  CUTTERS
  
  
  HONORARY CUTTER
  
  
  THE PLAN
  
  
  Part III LEAVING HOME
  
  
  CAPTIVE AUDIENCE
  
  
  ADVANCED ENGLISH
  
  
  UDZIR
  
  
  HARD LANDING
  
  
  JUNGLE
  
  
  RUIN
  
  
  METAL
  
  
  MAKE LIKE A MONKEY
  
  
  THE PILE
  
  
  THE USUAL PLACE
  
  
  DO-OVER
  
  
  NIGHT FLIGHT
  
  
  MASS PRODUCTION
  
  
  MISSILE
  
  
  HANDS
  
  
  AN OLD FRIEND
  
  
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