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 . . . a truth about her heritage that could change her life-and her future-forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world. Will Celaena find the strength to not only fight her inner demons, but to take on the evil that is about to be unleashed?

SEASON 1:

1. Throne of Glass  by Sarah J. Maas (25-11-2020)
2. Lenny's Book of Everything  by Karen Foxlee (9-12-2020)
3. After the Lights Go Out  by Lili Wilkinson (23-12-2020)
4. Sabriel  by Garth Nix (6-1-2021)
5. Small Spaces  by Sarah Epstein (20-1-2021)
6. Aurora Rising  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (3-2-2021)
7. Crown of Midnight  by Sarah J. Maas (17-2-2021)
8. What I Like About Me  by Jenna Guillame - This episode will include an interview with the author. (3-3-2021)
9. Gap Year in Ghost Town  by Michael Pryor (17-3-2021)
10. Illuminae  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (31-3-2021)
11. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder  by Holly Jackson (14-4-2021)
12. Heir of Fire  by Sarah J. Maas (28-4-2021)

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. Almost everyone. Having grown up in the small town that was consumed by the crime, Pippa Fitz-Adeleke chooses the case as the topic for her final project. 

But when Pip starts uncovering secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden, what starts out as a project begins to become Pip’s dangerous reality . . . 

SEASON 1:

1. Throne of Glass  by Sarah J. Maas (25-11-2020)
2. Lenny's Book of Everything  by Karen Foxlee (9-12-2020)
3. After the Lights Go Out  by Lili Wilkinson (23-12-2020)
4. Sabriel  by Garth Nix (6-1-2021)
5. Small Spaces  by Sarah Epstein (20-1-2021)
6. Aurora Rising  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (3-2-2021)
7. Crown of Midnight  by Sarah J. Maas (17-2-2021)
8. What I Like About Me  by Jenna Guillame - This episode will include an interview with the author. (3-3-2021)
9. Gap Year in Ghost Town  by Michael Pryor (17-3-2021)
10. Illuminae  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (31-3-2021)
11. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder  by Holly Jackson (14-4-2021)
12. Heir of Fire  by Sarah J. Maas (28-4-2021)

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 of their lives, and their romance, and trying to survive an intergalactic war.

The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that's little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down on them, exes Kady and Ezra are forced to escape on the evacuating fleet.

But the warship is the least of their problems. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results. The fleet's AI, which should be protecting them, may actually be their enemy; and nobody in charge will say what the hell is going on. As Kady hacks into a tangled web of data to find the truth, it's clear only one person can help her bring it all to light: the ex-boyfriend she swore she'd never speak to again.

Illuminae is the first book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy about lives interrupted, the price of truth and the courage of everyday heroes.

SEASON 1:

1. Throne of Glass  by Sarah J. Maas (25-11-2020)
2. Lenny's Book of Everything  by Karen Foxlee (9-12-2020)
3. After the Lights Go Out  by Lili Wilkinson (23-12-2020)
4. Sabriel  by Garth Nix (6-1-2021)
5. Small Spaces  by Sarah Epstein (20-1-2021)
6. Aurora Rising  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (3-2-2021)
7. Crown of Midnight  by Sarah J. Maas (17-2-2021)
8. What I Like About Me  by Jenna Guillame - This episode will include an interview with the author. (3-3-2021)
9. Gap Year in Ghost Town  by Michael Pryor (17-3-2021)
10. Illuminae  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (31-3-2021)
11. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder  by Holly Jackson (14-4-2021)
12. Heir of Fire  by Sarah J. Maas (28-4-2021)

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-man operation in inner-city Melbourne. Anton has the ghost-sight, but his father does not. Theirs is a gentle approach to ghost hunting. Rani Cross, combat-skilled ghost hunter from the Company of the Righteous, is all about the slashing. 

Anton and Rani don't see eye to eye - but with a massive spike in violent ghost manifestations, they must find a way to work together. 

And what with all the blindingly terrifying brushes with death, Anton must use his gap year to decide if he really wants in on the whole ghost-hunting biz . . . 

Gap Year in Ghost Town is smart, funny and scary with extra action and attitude. 

SEASON 1:

1. Throne of Glass  by Sarah J. Maas (25-11-2020)
2. Lenny's Book of Everything  by Karen Foxlee (9-12-2020)
3. After the Lights Go Out  by Lili Wilkinson (23-12-2020)
4. Sabriel  by Garth Nix (6-1-2021)
5. Small Spaces  by Sarah Epstein (20-1-2021)
6. Aurora Rising  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (3-2-2021)
7. Crown of Midnight  by Sarah J. Maas (17-2-2021)
8. What I Like About Me  by Jenna Guillame - This episode will include an interview with the author. (3-3-2021)
9. Gap Year in Ghost Town  by Michael Pryor (17-3-2021)
10. Illuminae  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (31-3-2021)
11. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder  by Holly Jackson (14-4-2021)
12. Heir of Fire  by Sarah J. Maas (28-4-2021)

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 happened since yesterday ...

The last thing sixteen-year-old Maisie Martin thought she'd be doing this summer is entering a beauty pageant.

Not when she's spent most of her life hiding her body from everyone.

Not when her Dad is AWOL for Christmas and her gorgeous older sister has returned to rock Maisie's shaky confidence. And her best friend starts going out with the boy she's always loved.

But Maisie's got something to prove.

As she writes down all the ways this summer is going from bad to worse in her school-assignment journal, what starts as a homework torture-device might just end up being an account of how Maisie didn't let anything, or anyone, hold her back...

SEASON 1:

1. Throne of Glass  by Sarah J. Maas (25-11-2020)
2. Lenny's Book of Everything  by Karen Foxlee (9-12-2020)
3. After the Lights Go Out  by Lili Wilkinson (23-12-2020)
4. Sabriel  by Garth Nix (6-1-2021)
5. Small Spaces  by Sarah Epstein (20-1-2021)
6. Aurora Rising  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (3-2-2021)
7. Crown of Midnight  by Sarah J. Maas (17-2-2021)
8. What I Like About Me  by Jenna Guillame - This episode will include an interview with the author. (3-3-2021)
9. Gap Year in Ghost Town  by Michael Pryor (17-3-2021)
10. Illuminae  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (31-3-2021)
11. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder  by Holly Jackson (14-4-2021)
12. Heir of Fire  by Sarah J. Maas (28-4-2021)

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: Everything that's happened since yesterday ...

The last thing sixteen-year-old Maisie Martin thought she'd be doing this summer is entering a beauty pageant.

Not when she's spent most of her life hiding her body from everyone.

Not when her Dad is AWOL for Christmas and her gorgeous older sister has returned to rock Maisie's shaky confidence. And her best friend starts going out with the boy she's always loved.

But Maisie's got something to prove.

As she writes down all the ways this summer is going from bad to worse in her school-assignment journal, what starts as a homework torture-device might just end up being an account of how Maisie didn't let anything, or anyone, hold her back...

SEASON 1:

1. Throne of Glass  by Sarah J. Maas (25-11-2020)
2. Lenny's Book of Everything  by Karen Foxlee (9-12-2020)
3. After the Lights Go Out  by Lili Wilkinson (23-12-2020)
4. Sabriel  by Garth Nix (6-1-2021)
5. Small Spaces  by Sarah Epstein (20-1-2021)
6. Aurora Rising  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (3-2-2021)
7. Crown of Midnight  by Sarah J. Maas (17-2-2021)
8. What I Like About Me  by Jenna Guillame - This episode will include an interview with the author. (3-3-2021)
9. Gap Year in Ghost Town  by Michael Pryor (17-3-2021)
10. Illuminae  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (31-3-2021)
11. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder  by Holly Jackson (14-4-2021)
12. Heir of Fire  by Sarah J. Maas (28-4-2021)

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 the King's contest and became his champion, Celaena has been granted neither her liberty nor the freedom to follow her heart. The slavery of the suffocating salt mines of Endovier that scarred her past is nothing compared to a life bound to her darkest enemy, a king whose rule is so dark and evil it is near impossible to defy.

Celaena faces a choice that is tearing her heart to pieces: kill in cold blood for a man she hates, or risk sentencing those she loves to death. Celaena must decide what she will fight for: survival, love or the future of a kingdom. Because an assassin cannot have it all... And trying to may just destroy her.

Love or loathe Celaena, she will slice open your heart with her dagger and leave you bleeding long after the last page of the highly anticipated sequel in what is undeniably the hottest new fantasy series.

SEASON 1:

1. Throne of Glass  by Sarah J. Maas (25-11-2020)
2. Lenny's Book of Everything  by Karen Foxlee (9-12-2020)
3. After the Lights Go Out  by Lili Wilkinson (23-12-2020)
4. Sabriel  by Garth Nix (6-1-2021)
5. Small Spaces  by Sarah Epstein (20-1-2021)
6. Aurora Rising  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (3-2-2021)
7. Crown of Midnight  by Sarah J. Maas (17-2-2021)
8. What I Like About Me  by Jenna Guillame - This episode will include an interview with the author. (3-3-2021)
9. Gap Year in Ghost Town  by Michael Pryor (17-3-2021)
10. Illuminae  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (31-3-2021)
11. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder  by Holly Jackson (14-4-2021)
12. Heir of Fire  by Sarah J. Maas (28-4-2021)

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, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch . . .

A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm
A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates
A smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy's biggest chip on his shoulder
An alien warrior with anger management issues
A tomboy pilot who's totally not into him, in case you were wondering

And Ty's squad isn't even his biggest problem--that'd be Aurora Jie-Lin O'Malley, the girl he's just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler's squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.

NOBODY PANIC.

SEASON 1:

1. Throne of Glass  by Sarah J. Maas (25-11-2020)
2. Lenny's Book of Everything  by Karen Foxlee (9-12-2020)
3. After the Lights Go Out  by Lili Wilkinson (23-12-2020)
4. Sabriel  by Garth Nix (6-1-2021)
5. Small Spaces  by Sarah Epstein (20-1-2021)
6. Aurora Rising  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (3-2-2021)
7. Crown of Midnight  by Sarah J. Maas (17-2-2021)
8. What I Like About Me  by Jenna Guillame - This episode will include an interview with the author. (3-3-2021)
9. Gap Year in Ghost Town  by Michael Pryor (17-3-2021)
10. Illuminae  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (31-3-2021)
11. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder  by Holly Jackson (14-4-2021)
12. Heir of Fire  by Sarah J. Maas (28-4-2021)

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 Fisher away from a carnival. At the time nobody believed Tash, and she has since come to accept that Sparrow wasn’t real. Now fifteen and mute, Mallory’s never spoken about the week she went missing. As disturbing memories resurface, Tash starts to see Sparrow again. And she realises Mallory is the key to unlocking the truth about a dark secret connecting them. Does Sparrow exist after all? Or is Tash more dangerous to others than she thinks?


SEASON 1:

1. Throne of Glass  by Sarah J. Maas (25-11-2020)
2. Lenny's Book of Everything  by Karen Foxlee (9-12-2020)
3. After the Lights Go Out  by Lili Wilkinson (23-12-2020)
4. Sabriel  by Garth Nix (6-1-2021)
5. Small Spaces  by Sarah Epstein (20-1-2021)
6. Aurora Rising  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (3-2-2021)
7. Crown of Midnight  by Sarah J. Maas (17-2-2021)
8. What I Like About Me  by Jenna Guillame - This episode will include an interview with the author. (3-3-2021)
9. Gap Year in Ghost Town  by Michael Pryor (17-3-2021)
10. Illuminae  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (31-3-2021)
11. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder  by Holly Jackson (14-4-2021)
12. Heir of Fire  by Sarah J. Maas (28-4-2021)

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 from the magical realm of the Old Kingdom, and the Dead that roam it. But then a creature from across the Wall arrives at her all-girls boarding school with a message from her father, the Abhorsen - the magical protector of the realm whose task it is to bind and send back to Death those that won't stay Dead. Since the demise of the Royal Family the Dead have become stronger and more fearless, and now it seems their forces are threatening to overwhelm the Old Kingdom. Sabriel's father has been trapped in Death by a dangerous Free Magic creature. He urges her to return to her homeland, and to discover who or what is behind this uprising.

Armed with her father's binding-bells and sword, she soon finds companions in Mogget, an ancient spirit bound into the body of a cat, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage whom Sabriel frees from a long, magical imprisonment. As the three travel deep into the Old Kingdom, threats mount on all sides. And every step brings them closer to a battle that will pit them against the true forces of life and death - and bring Sabriel face-to-face with her own destiny.

SEASON 1:

1. Throne of Glass  by Sarah J. Maas (25-11-2020)
2. Lenny's Book of Everything  by Karen Foxlee (9-12-2020)
3. After the Lights Go Out  by Lili Wilkinson (23-12-2020)
4. Sabriel  by Garth Nix (6-1-2021)
5. Small Spaces  by Sarah Epstein (20-1-2021)
6. Aurora Rising  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (3-2-2021)
7. Crown of Midnight  by Sarah J. Maas (17-2-2021)
8. What I Like About Me  by Jenna Guillame - This episode will include an interview with the author. (3-3-2021)
9. Gap Year in Ghost Town  by Michael Pryor (17-3-2021)
10. Illuminae  by Jay Kristoff and Amie Kaufman (31-3-2021)
11. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder  by Holly Jackson (14-4-2021)
12. Heir of Fire  by Sarah J. Maas (28-4-2021)