What is the author's style in The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer?

The novel follows the conventional problem-struggle-crisis-resolution structure of most novels, with a minor variation in which the runaway children struggle to free themselves from the clutches of the She-Elephant, are recaptured and must flee again.

Farmer uses an omniscient narrator to tell the story. The narrator knows her characters and divulges to the reader how their lives are changed in the process of confronting reality and struggling for survival. The author relates her story in a fairly straightforward manner and allows the characters and settings to set the tone rather than imposing her own thoughts and feelings directly onto the narrative.