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Dust
By Slade, Arthur
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-38573-004-4 978-0-38590-093-5
- Publisher
- Lamb Random
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2003
Gr 6-9 In a bone-dry summer during the Great Depression, Matthew, seven, disappears from a small prairie community in Saskatchewan. Soon afterward, Abram Harsich comes to town, and before long nearly everyone has fallen under his mesmerizing spell. He claims to be a meteorologist and enlists local men to help him build a "rainmill" that will bring an end to the crippling drought. Only Matthew's brother Robert, 11, who has visions of his dead Uncle Edmund trying to warn him of something, and bookish Uncle Alden...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2003
In the down-and-out town of Horshoe, Saskatchewan, dust is everywhere because of a drought that seems endless. When Abram Harsich comes to town with his Mirror of All Things and his grand plans to build a rain machine, residents are mesmerized. They forget their troubles—and their children who are mysteriously disappearing—and throw themselves into the construction of the gigantic contraption. But eleven-year-old Robert can't forget his brother Matthew,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
