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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld ((Thorndike Press Large Print Literacy Bridge Series))
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a …
White queer lady in San Francisco. Knitter, transit geek, and sometime editor and cyclist. Planting peas and potatoes to prefigure an anarchist future. I listen to a lot of nonfiction audiobooks.
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