The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
a novel
by Nancy Farmer · first published 1994
6mentions
2recommended by
4HN commenters
2013–2024first – last mentioned
50% recommend50% neutral
From the Publisher: The year is 2194, and Tendai, his brother, and his sister-the children of Zimbabwei's chief of security-have escaped from their father's estate to explore the dangerous city of Harare. The Ear, the Eye and the Arm was a Newbery Honor Book, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Notable Children's Book, a BCCB Blue Ribbon Book, and received a Golden Kite Award, and a Parents' Choice Award. It received starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly and The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.
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This is an important element of one of my favorite YA novels from my youth, The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/633270.The_Ear_the_Eye_a...
on “El Salvador bans metal mining in world first” ↗Check out the scifi subgenres like Afrofuturism. I remember The Ear The Eye and The Arm by Nancy Farmer being a great intro to the genre that was on my middle school summer reading list.
on “We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus” ↗Well, the oldest I had called “Kids’ Rave Book Reviews” — KRBR for short — and I had started off what I vaguely hoped to be a community project by posting my review of The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm, which I had just re-read in sixth grade.
on “Yahoo buys GeoCities (1999)” ↗…became very expensive and things like plastic bowls were used as signs of wealth. The plot involved kids who were taken and forced to mine plastic from old landfills. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ear,_the_Eye_and_the_Arm
on “Bikes, bowling balls, and the balancing act that is modern recycling (2015)” ↗…we've run out of oil. The only people that have plastic in this future society are extremely wealthy and poor people "mine" old landfills looking for plastic to sell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ear,_the_Eye_and_the_Arm
on “Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap” ↗There's a kids sci-fi novel called The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm that talks about this a bit. There are children searching for plastic in landfills because they've run out of oil to make new plastic. Plastic bowls and things are status symbols because of how expensive…
on “The Engineering of Landfills” ↗