05.15.08
We Have a Winner!
Congratulations to author Scott Westerfeld! His exciting and thought-provoking book Uglies has been chosen as the winner of the Florida Teens Read Award for 2007-2008. Over 1,300 of you voted for your favorites from the list of titles below. Just in case you didn’t know, Uglies is the first in a trilogy plus one. Be sure to read Pretties, Specials and Extras, too.
A new list of 15 books has been released for Florida Teens Read 2008-2009. If you’d like to read some great books this summer, go to http://www.floridamedia.org/ which is the web page for the Florida Association for Media in Education (FAME). Click on Florida Teens Read–Current Titles to read about the new titles. A new blog site will be posted in August with more thought questions and a place for you to talk about what you’ve read with other Brevard teens.
In this futuristic society, young people believe they are ugly until, at age 16, they undergo an operation that changes them into “pretties.” Tally Youngblood looks forward to turning 16 until she meets another female named Shay who questions this way of life and urges Tally to defect to a distant settlement of simple living. When Shay disappears, Tally is coerced by cruel Dr. Cable to find Shay and her patriots or stay “ugly” forever.