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Tally cannot stand being away from her best friend and decides to sneak out to "New Pretty Town"
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After Tally arrives at the mansion that Peris lives in she is reunited with a changed version of him in the elevator before her big escape.
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After a daring escape, Tally meets another Ugly in New Pretty Town by the name of Shay.
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Shay tries to teach Tally how to hoverboard.
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Tally decides to create a pretty face idea for Shay and the friends discuss the pretty surgery.
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Shay and Tally visit the rusty ruins. This is what is remaining of our current society from before the Apocalypse.
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Tally is introduced to a current day rollercoaster for the first time before heading back to Uglyville.
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Shay decides to leave and go to the Smokes after leaving Tally a coded message as to the whereabouts.
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As the day for Tally to receive her operation comes, other elite members of the Pretties known as the "Special Circumstances" stand in her way.
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After agreeing to locate Shay for the Specials, she begins her journey alone to find the Smokes.
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After 6 days of hoverboarding, Tally finally finds the Smokes and is reunited with her friend Shay. She is also introduced to Shay's friend David and other runaway Uglies.
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Tally begins to work like everyone else in the Smoke. She helps by gathering metal from the abandoned railroad tracks,.
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David begins to like Tally because she appears to be taking her place in the Smoke more seriously than most of the Uglies who find their way there. The more Tally sees that the Smoke is important to people, the more she feels she shouldn't tell Dr. Cable.
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Shay begins to grow jealous of Tally because David gives Tally his gloves.
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David thinks Tally is special because he thinks she is so brave for coming to the Smoke all alone just to find Shay. Tally begins to see David for more than his appearance as well.
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Tally meets David's parents and they reveal to her that the Pretty surgery causes brain damage to make people more manageable.
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Tally kisses David, and decides that she does not want to turn the Smoke into Dr. Cable, so she tosses her heart pendant tracking device into the fire. When she awakens the next day, she finds that Special Circumstances secret police have invade the hidden Smoke.
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The Special Cirumstances arrest all of the Uglies hiding in the Smoke, with the exception of David, whom cant be found.
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Tally escapes from the clutches of Dr. Cable and the Special Circumstances to go find David.
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Tally finds David and together they make their way to New Pretty Town to search for David's parents.
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Tally and David distract most of Special Cirumstance with fireworks to break in to rescue David's parents and some of the other Smokies.
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Tally and David find Shay, but she has been turned pretty.
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They find David's mother and some of the other smokies, but learn that David's father is dead.
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The escaped Smokies hide in the Rusty Ruins. Maddy, David's mother, learns that she might be able to reverse the brain damage caused by the Pretty Surgery.
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Those from the Smoke tell the other Uglies the truth about the Pretty surgery. Maddy, David's mom, figures out a cure but needs a volunteer.
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Tally volunteers to be a tester for the brain surgery since Maddy refuses to give it to Shay against her will. Tally tells David, and everyone else the truth about why she had originally came to the Smoke.
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Tally writes herself a letter to remind her of what her goal is. Shay and Tally go to the city and Tally turns herself in to be made Pretty.
