num_pages: 192
description: SEVEN-YEAR-OLD MATTHEW DISAPPEARS one day on a walk into Horshoe, a dust bowl farm town in Depression-era Saskatchewan. Other children go missing just as a strange man named Abram Harsich appears in town. He dazzles the townspeople with the promises of a rainmaking machine. Only Matthew’s older brother Robert seems to be able to resist Abram’s spell, and to discover what happened to Matthew and the others.
  A Governor General’s Award for Children’s LiteratureAn ALA Best Books for Young Adults
From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: Dust
titlecomplete: Dust
genres: Middle Grade, Canada, Historical Fiction, Historical, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Horror, Fantasy, Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 1553
places: Saskatchewan
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Saskatchewan Book Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Children’s Literature — Text, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Mr. Christie's Book Award
publisher: Laurel Leaf