The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. That's the one of the strangest title's I've come across. But it does fit the story perfectly. Otherwise they would have to call it something else. And it probably wouldn't sound as interesting! What I like about this book is that it mixes old African folklore and and a futuristic theme that you see in a lot of Nancy Farmer's books. She does it very well too. This story is about a futuristic Zimbabwe where this General person protect everybody from gangs. He has 3 children he protects a little too well. They don't know how to do anything outside there own home. And they have never seen lots of people, nor seen the wild city streets at there worst. One day they decide to take an adventure. Shielded from the world as they were it's no wonder they ended up kidnapped ans put to work in the plastic mines. They have many escapes in there adventure And it's not an ordinary adventure. There's not a lot of action until the end of the story. Anyway horrified that her 3 darling children are missing there mom hires 3 detectives called the Ear the Eye and the Arm(from the agency called the same name) . They almost get them back...and then again they are just minutes behind...and then again...well you'll just have to wait and see. But these 3 people have special powers. Ear can hear amazingly well. And Eye can see across vast distances. Arm can feel peoples' emotions.
The thing about this book is that no matter what you do or think, it will not happen that way. Some things are easier to predict than others but they will not happen that way. You can go and look up what happens (and I'm not giving you that idea!) but it's better to read so you know what goes on before that and before that. Everything is a chain reaction. Because the children ran away, a million other things unfolded.
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