The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
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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- 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.
- 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...
- 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 plastic becomes.
- There's a book I read as a kid that takes place in the sort of near future after 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.
- A book I read as a kid was set in a future where they were out of oil and couldn't make new plastic. Plastic 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.
- 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.
