Nancy Farmer - The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm

Pros: Multi-layered book with well-developed characters, themes, and plot

Cons: None.

The Bottom Line: This is one of the most interesting and well-written juvenile fiction novels I've read. It's highly original and the storytellling is superb.

Review: Dear Saralinda:* Sometimes the price of prolific reading is that books start to seem alike. You enter a genre and before you’ve read ten pages you can predict what the characters will do and how the plot will twist. It is in contrast to such ...

Pros: Good plotting, imaginative, creative

Cons: One part was predictable

Review: This book takes place in the future, in the world of Africa. Only now Africa is much more developed, and modern (well it is the future!). It took a different approach to science fiction, however, because most books are either about space or robots. This...

Pros: A decent childrens book... pretty good at times

Cons: Too much african pride, silly, African words look too much alike

Review: This book is actually quite decent for a book capable of school reading. Its kinda dull in parts though. There is no real 'reality element' in this book. Anything a child could think of doing or seeing no matter how stupid or silly it is, it is in this...