Join our hosts Gabi and Luke, with guest speaker Bindi in the finale episode of season one of Chat YA Up! where we read young adult books and then review them for you! For more information, follow us on Instagram & Facebook and don't forget to check out Library at Home! Our finale episode is Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak-but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth...

Join our hosts Gabi and Luke, with guest speaker Kat in the eleventh episode of Chat YA Up! where we read young adult books and then review them for you! For more information, follow us on Instagram & Facebook and don't forget to check out Library at Home! Our eleventh episode is A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. Alm...

Join our hosts Gabi and Luke, with guest speaker Holly in the twelfth episode of Chat YA Up! where we read young adult books and then review them for you! For more information, follow us on Instagram & Facebook and don't forget to check out Library at Home! Our twelfth episode is Illuminae by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman Kady and Ezra thought their break-up was messy until they witnessed their entire world literally falling apart. Now they're piecing together what's left o...

Join our host Gabi with guest speaker Emma in the ninth episode of Chat YA Up! where we read young adult books and then review them for you! For more information, follow us on Instagram & Facebook and don't forget to check out Library at Home! Our ninth episode is Gap Year in Ghost Town by Michael Pryor Let's get this straight - ghosts are everywhere. And they're dangerous. This is why my family has hunted them for hundreds of years. The Marin family run a two-...

Join our hosts Gabi and Luke, with guest speaker Prue in the eighth episode of Chat YA Up! where we read young adult books and then review them for you! For more information, follow us on Instagram & Facebook and don't forget to check out Library at Home! Our eighth episode is What I Like About Me by Jenna Guillame You know all those movies where teenagers have, like, the summer of their lives? This summer is probably not going to be that. Source: Everything that's happen...

Join our hosts Gabi as she chats with local author, Jenna Guillame in this special episode of Chat YA Up! where we read young adult books and then review them for you! For more information, follow us on Instagram & Facebook and don't forget to check out Library at Home! Our eighth episode is What I Like About Me by Jenna Guillame You know all those movies where teenagers have, like, the summer of their lives? This summer is probably not going to be that. Source: Eve...

Join our hosts Gabi and Luke, with guest speaker Bindi in the seventh episode of Chat YA Up! where we read young adult books and then review them for you! For more information, follow us on Instagram & Facebook and don't forget to check out Library at Home! Our seventh episode is Crown of Midnight, by Sarah J. Maas. Eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien is bold, daring and beautiful - the perfect seductress and the greatest assassin her world has ever known. But though she won t...

Join our host Gabi, with guest speaker Sarah in the sixth episode of Chat YA Up! where we read young adult books and then review them for you! For more information, follow us on Instagram & Facebook and don't forget to check out Library at Home! Our sixth episode is Aurora Rising by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams,...

Join our host Gabi with guest speaker Emma in the fifth episode of Chat YA Up! where we read young adult books and then review them for you! For more information, follow us on Instagram & Facebook and don't forget to check out Library at Home! Our fifth episode is Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein “We don’t pick and choose what to be afraid of. Our fears pick us.” Tash Carmody has been traumatised since childhood, when she witnessed her gruesome imaginary friend Sparrow lure young Mallory...

Join our host Gabi with guest speaker Kat in the fourth episode of Chat YA Up! where we read young adult books and then review them for you! For more information, follow us on Instagram & Facebook and don't forget to check out Library at Home! Our fourth episode is Sabriel by Garth Nix. The Old Kingdom is a place of free magic, necromancers and ancient spirits bound to elemental forces. Who will guard the living when the dead arise? Sabriel has spent most of her young life far away fr...

Join our hosts Gabi & Luke in the third episode of Chat YA Up! where we read young adult books and then review them for you! For more information, follow us on Instagram & Facebook and don't forget to check out Library at Home! Our third episode is After the Lights Go Out by Lili Wilkinson What happens when the lights go off after what might truly be an end-of-the-world event? How do you stay alive? Who do you trust? How much do you have to sacrifice? Seventeen-year-old Pru Palmer...

Join our host Gabi, with guest speaker Sarah in the second episode of Chat YA Up! where we read young adult books and then review them for you! For more information, follow us on Instagram & Facebook and don't forget to check out Library at Home! Our second episode is Lenny's Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee I knew my brother. I knew when he talked too much about Timothy his imaginary pet eagle. He was scared. 'Whatever you do,' I said to Davey on the walk to school, 'Do not tell peo...

Join our hosts Gabi and Luke, with guest speaker Bindi in the first episode of Chat YA Up! where we read young adult books and then review them for you! For more information, follow us on Instagram & Facebook and don't forget to check out Library at Home! Our first episode is Throne of Glass, by Sarah J. Maas. After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian off...

Welcome to Chat YA Up! Commencing 4:00pm Wednesday 25 November. Join us with Chat YA Up! Shellharbour City Libraries YA podcast, where we read young adult books and then review them for you. A new bookish podcast brought to you by our hosts Gabi and Luke as they converse with guest speakers across a variety of different genres within YA. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas (25-11-2020)Lenny's Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee (9-12-2020)After the Lights Go Out by Lili ...