Dust - Arthur Slade

SEVEN-YEAR-OLD MATTHEW DISAPPEARS one day on a walk into Horseshoe, a dust-choked farm town in Depression-era Saskatchewan. More children go missing just as a mysterious stranger named Abram Harsich arrives - dazzling the townspeople with promises of a rainmaking machine. Only Matthew's older brother Robert seems immune to Abram's spell. But to save Matthew and the others, Robert must uncover a secret far darker than a drought.

*Governor General's Award for Children's Literature

*ALA Best Books for Young Adults