cover image DUST

DUST

Arthur G. Slade, . . Dell/Laurel-Leaf, $5.99 (192pp) ISBN 978-0-440-22976-6

During a drought between the two world wars, a stranger uses hypnosis on a small town to get the residents to build a "rainmill" and to induce them to forget about the children who begin to disappear. "Slade sustains the hallucinatory, off-kilter tone of a prolonged nightmare," wrote PW. Ages 10-up. (Oct.)