Dust

Title
Dust

Personal Author EPSB
Arthur G. Slade

Summary
Strange things are happening in Horshoe. Matthew, Robert's seven-year-old brother, has vanished on a walk into town to buy some gum. Robert's mother had asked him to accompany Matthew to Horshoe, but Robert was away -- his mind deep in a swashbuckling adventure story set on Mars, not home on his dust-bowl farm in Saskatchewan.

Year Published
2001

Physical Description
168 p.

Grade Interest level
3-6

Program Information
Accelerated Reader MG 4.6 6.0 57938

Awards
The Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Awards Winner

Subject
Great Depression, 1929-1939 -- Canada -- Fiction.
 
Droughts -- Fiction.
 
Supernatural -- Fiction.
 
Missing children -- Fiction.
 
Fear -- Fiction.
 
Brothers -- Fiction.
 
Psychological fiction.

Summary
Strange things are happening in Horshoe. Matthew, Robert's seven-year-old brother, has vanished on a walk into town to buy some gum. Robert's mother had asked him to accompany Matthew to Horshoe, but Robert was away -- his mind deep in a swashbuckling adventure story set on Mars, not home on his dust-bowl farm in Saskatchewan.

ISBN
9780006485933

Publisher
Toronto : HarperCollins, 2001


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
D.S. MacKenzieFIC SLABook30522000216744Mystery Fiction