Aya Fuse lives in a world where popularity is everything. But Aya isn't popular, she has a face rank of 451,369. But when she finds a clique called the Sly Girls, her world changes. Before she knows it she has a face rank in single digits. But sometimes fame can be dangerous.

Tally Youngblood wants to turn pretty. But when her new friend Shay comes around, everything changes. When Shay runs away, Tally has to go and find her, or else she must stay ugly forever. But when Tally finds out what the Pretty surgery does, she'll do anything to get rid of it.

Tally finally turns pretty. Then she remembers why she's there. She has to save the world from turning into bubbleheads forever.

Specials is the third book in the Uglies series, and the most action packed. Tally has always dreaded the wolf like faces of Specials. How they are super humans. How they always stop her from living at the Smoke. Now she is a Special, and she must bring down the Smoke. Once and for all.