Zenith by Dirk Strasser

What's it all about?
Imagine...
A mountain so great it takes a year to travel from base to summit
A sun so powerful it drives you into madness if you look at it
An ascent so vital it determines the fate of the world
A summit so precious it holds the key to the divine

She is not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick

What's it all about?                                                                                                                                                                     Sixteen-year-old Laureth kidnaps her "slightly strange" little brother, Benjamin, and embarks on a transatlantic journey to New York to find her missing father, the famous author, Jack Peak. Laureth suspects that something terrible has happened after receiving an email from a Mr Michael Walker, saying that he has found her father's notebook in Queens - Jack is supposed to be in Switzerland.  Compelled by her mother's apparent lack of concern, Laureth hatches a plan to track down her father, convinced that he needs her help. It is only when Laureth and Benjamin arrive at the airport that we realise why she is 'abducting' her little brother: Laureth is blind and will need him to help her navigate around the unfamiliar territory of the airport and of New York.

Tinder by Sally Gardner

What's it all about?

As the title suggests, this is a dark re-working of Hans Christian Anderson's frivolous and amoral tale, 'The Tinder-box'. Gardner's version is a much more harrowing account told by a traumatised young soldier, Otto Hundebiss, during the Thirty Years War. On his travels he encounters a beautiful young princess called Safire, werewolves, and the truly terrifying witch, ‘The Lady of the Nail’.