Zenith is the incredible story of three teenagers with
the will to make their own beginnings in the harshest of worlds. It
continues the stunning journey begun in Exodus,
which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children’s Book of the Year
Award. For all those adults and children who enjoyed Pullman’s Dark
Materials trilogy, both titles will be devoured. It is also an
environmental wake-up call that should be required reading for all.
With terrific storytelling power, Julie Bretagna has written an
ambitious and intellectually stimulating novel and pulled it off with
great aplomb.
Sixteen-year-old Mara and her ship of refugees are tracking the North
Star, desperate to find a homeland in the melted ice mountains of
Greenland. Unwittingly, the refugees bring catastrophe in their wake for
Tuck, a gypsea pirate-boy, and also for Ilira - a land whose
inhabitants exist in a state of terror at the top of the world.
Julie Bertagna is an award-winning writer for children and young adults who also writes freelance features for the Scottish press. She lives in Glasgow and her new novel, Zenith, sequel to the highly-acclaimed Exodus, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread children's prize, has just been published.
