December 19, 2009 (Catholic education, Catholic schools)

Dust
Arthur Slade
Harper Canada
ISBN 9780006485940

This book won the Governor General’s Literary Award back in 2001 for Children’s Literature. I loved it. Set in a small town in rural Saskatchewan of Horshoe something strange is going on. Robert’s younger brother has gone missing and soon no one seems to even remember him. The story set in a depression era dust bowl farm community, has many unique twists and turns.

The strange things started happening when Abram Harisch arrived in town; he appears to be taking control of the townspeople through his magic, mirrors and bewitching nature. Harisch has promised the town a rain-making machine, and in following this dream they are slowing losing all they care about and don’t even notice. But Robert does and he knows he needs to avoid Harisch and figure out what is really going on or the whole town could be lost.

There are two different cover jackets for this book. I prefer the original to the newer one but either way it is a great adventure read.

Steven McEvoy works full time as an IT professional, but his passion is learning. As a result he is part time mature student at St. Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo Ontario in the Religious Studies Program.

His personal blog is http://bookreviewsandmore.ca/

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