Specials
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Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she's one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.
But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus isn't better than anything she's ever known. Tally still has memories of something else.
Still, it's easy to tune that out—until she's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same.
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Scott Westerfeld. (2008). Specials. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Scott Westerfeld. 2008. Specials. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Scott Westerfeld, Specials. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008.
MLA Citation (style guide)Scott Westerfeld. Specials. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2008.
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Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she's one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.
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Still, it's easy to tune that out—until she's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same. - seriesId
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Gr. 7-10. After stints as a back-to-nature rebel (" Uglies, " 2004), and as a "bubbleheaded" specimen of physical perfection (" Pretties, " 2005)" ," 16-year-old Tally undergoes another dramatic reversal in this conclusion to Westerfeld's blockbuster trilogy. She now belongs to a turbocharged commando unit designed to quash resistance to the government's mass surgical (and neurosurgical) campaigns. Though at first a model Special, enamored of her "almost above human" status, several brushes with her past force her to question the price of her transformation as the stakes escalate. Some plot elements, especially Tally's gradual groping toward independent thought, may strike readers as rather similar to devices used in the preceding books, and the setup feels overcomplicated. But series fans will still relish this final visit to Westerfeld's dystopian world, in which details of the cultlike Specials, especially their imagination-grabbing gadgetry, inventively combine with the premise's winning themes: free will, self-image, and teen-powered subversion of authority. (Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)
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Westerfeld's unique dystopian "trilogy plus one" receives a full redesign (in hardcover, no less), from covers to trim size and page design, in an apparent attempt to market the books to a crossover audience.(Copyright 2011 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus isn't better than anything she's ever known. Tally still has memories of something else.
Still, it's easy to tune that out—until she's offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she's programmed to complete. Either way, Tally's world will never be the same. - sortTitle
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