The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

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Summary: Don't Lok Behind the Masks
Review: "Think about it, would you steal out from a enormous mansion in to a country where there's lots of kidnapping and killing or would you stay in the lonely mansion. This is what the main character of The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm felt like. This world is a futuristic (2194), Zimbawe, there's lots of high skyscarpers and flying taxies. You'll see how this story will end.
A boy, Tendai, the General Matsika's son was under lock and key in a mansion He was 13 years old and has one sister, Rita and one brother Kuda. His target was the Boyscout Adventure badge. To earn this he had to take a risk to get out of this huge mansion. The outside of this house roamed the hideous gangs, the Masks. Who were ready to sneak behind and kill you. The Mellower who's the praise singer felt that Tendai and his little siblings, Rita and Kuda, were fitigued in the fatigued mansion. So Mellower hypnothized General Matsika and freed the children from the big mansion to the wild world. The Matsika children wanders around the city then gets cuaght by the evil woman She Elephant. Then they escape from her, but they run in deep trouble like the Oregon Trail making hard choices, but Tendai doesn't make good choices.
This is the beginning when the real the perils start. As it goes on, the wife of the general calls the three weird detectives that were born with nuclear waste of the Cow's Guts. These three detectives are called Ear, Eye, and Arm Ear has a super hearing abilities that he can even hear a whisper from the next door. Eye has eyes that is like a frogs' eyes. He only has a pupl in his eyes. He wears green speckled glasses to cover 95% of his eyes. Otherwise he would get confused. Arm has a long arm and he can pick up feelings from people. With this capabitllities, the detective calulates out th mystery fo the disappearance of the children and searches for signs of the peril.
I recommend firth and sixth grade to read this book, nd peope that like mysteries. I really liked it because it was adventurous and everything unexpected things happens.

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Summary: The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
Review: When three children of a very important general run away from their machine-runned home in futuristic Zimbabwe, they are kidnapped by gang members, Knife and Fist. They are now at the mercy of the monstrous She Elephant, the leader of an underground world. The children, Tendai, Rita, and Kuda are made to mine for plastic, a now hard-to-come by material.

When the childrens father learn of their kidnap, he and his wife hire The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, three dectectives with a business of the same name. The Ear has great hearing abilities, the Eye can see from far away distances, and Arm has a strange pyschic power. Ideal detectives, right?

Join Tendai, Rita, and Kuda in this suspensful and sometimes comedic book. Nancy Farmer is by far my favorite sf/fantasy author(Along with J.K. Rowling, Susan Cooper, Tolkien, and Ursula K. LeGuin

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Summary: Entertaining and mysterious
Review: The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm was an entertaining and exciting mystery novel. General Matsika, a intimidating war leader of Zimbabwe, has 3 children, who all sneaked out of thier beautiful mansion to complete and earn scout badges. Once their mother found out, she contacted a detective agency to help seek out their lost children. These detectives were named Ear, Eye, and Arm. Each had a special ability, obvious in their names. The 3 children experience and go through many dangerous adventures. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm undergo many hazardous and risky ventures in order to find and save Matsika's children. I think that The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm was a very enjoyable and interesting book, and I recommend it to any mystery lover or anyone interested.

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Summary: "This is a plastic mine..."
Review: Harare Zimbabwe 2194. Cars fly. Robots and mechanical guard dogs maintain household order. Want to see real plastic? Go to a musuem.
Author Nancy Farmer lived 17 years in Africa. She creates complex, realistic characters, especially the Matiska children and the three detectives. Minor players - the She-Elephant, the Mellower, his mother - are also well-drawn. You remember them.

Africa's future is tied to its past. Greed and prejudice still exist, but so do courage and resourcefulness. I liked how the native Shona spiritual world influences the characters.
Unforgettable setting + humor + insight = unique adventure/coming of age novel for children and adults. I referred to the appendix and glossary throughout the book; both aided my understanding.

This was the first Nancy Farmer book I tried. I look forward to reading more by this accomplished author.

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Summary: This Book sucks
Review: this book is beter towords the end but the first 4-5 chapters blow. It is written in such a weird way that your head hurts after a while.It is also so tedious and inaccurate. in 2194 there are not going to be people you can hire to sing about you. this story is dragged out for 300 pages, with so many meaningless details. IF THEY JUST GOT TO THE FREAKING POINT, it could be a 1/3 as long. Now, i will admit reading is not my idea of fun, but a good book here and there can't hurt. You want a summary huh? fine: 3 kids get kidnapped, they escape to an even weirder place. and finnaly get rescued. For the record, this is not something i picked out, i was forced to read this stupid @$$ book. Also, i am expecting a bad grade on it. the worst part is, i actually TRYED to get interested in this book but i just could'nt. All and all, i only recomened this if you are a nerd with ABSOLUTLY NOTHING left to do. I mean a real emergency. i would rather get my braces tightened than read 1 PAGE of this book.

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Summary: Great stuff
Review: The best futuristic sci-fi tale for children set in Zimbabwe I've ever read. Which is unfair backhanded praise for a book that, in my opinion, should've been awarded the Newberry Award without question. Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm at a party and a savvy Hollywood producer comes up to me and asks for the number one children's book that should be optioned for a movie. Batta bing, I recommend this book. In it, you have a well-developed plot containing characters of amazing depth. No two-dimensional stick figures for this children's novel. The setting is more than unique. It is unparalleled. Farmer's ingenuity has created a book that speaks volumes. Not only is it an enjoyable edge-of-your-seat mystery, but there's a distinctly moral core to the book. It's the rare story that can make a person actually enjoy a section on (believe it or not) "courage". If your children can read, give them this book. If your children cannot read, give them this book anyway and teach them to do so with it. There is no higher praise I can give.