the ear the eye and the arm by nancy farmer

Farmer is emerging as one of the best and brightest authors for the YA audience. In Zimbabwe, in the year 2194, the children's parents call in Africa's most unusual detectives-the Ear, the Eye and the Arm-who have powers far beyond those of other human beings. Their parents call in the Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, detectives whose exposure to nuclear waste has given them special powers. General Matsika's children steal out of the house on a forbidden adventure-and disappear. This tale overflows with wise insights, lessons and observations about the ties between heritage and family. Scholastic Inc ISBN 9780545356619 Paperback 336 Pages. The madcap game of chase and escape clips along as the author plies her playful, sly sense of humor on a wonderfully silly cast of secondary characters, spirits and Jetsonian gadgets. Meanwhile, the beleaguered general hires the Ear, the Eye and the Arm, three decidedly odd detectives who take advantage of their hyperdeveloped senses and features (the result of a nuclear accident) to track down the children. They finally escape, but are captured anew and imprisoned in Resthaven, a cloistered community where the ancient African spiritual and farming traditions are practiced to the exclusion of all things modern. Her books are all imaginative and creative, and in The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, we're whisked away to Zimbabwe in the year 2194, where Tendai and his siblings Rita and Kuda are kidnapped by a genetically engineered blue monkey and sold to mask-wearing, voodoo-practicing bogeymen. The three are promptly kidnapped by the monstrous She Elephant, an ogre who lords over an abandoned toxic waste dump and forces its denizens to mine obsolete plastic products. Nancy Farmer is a very successful young adult novelist.

In search of adventure, 13-year-old Tendai, his sister Rita and younger brother Kuda, the sheltered offspring of a maniacally rigid military general, break out of the family compound. Picking up where she left off in her highly successful debut, Do You Know Me, Farmer uses her knowledge of Africa to imagine a city in 23rd-century Zimbabwe, combining old traditions and speculative technology with delightfully entertaining results. Nancy Farmer has written three Newbery Honor Books: The Ear the Eye and the Arm A Girl Named Disaster and The House of the Scorpion, which, in 2002, also won the National Book Award.

The ear the eye and the arm by nancy farmer