My Life as a Youtuber (My Life, #7) by Janet Tashjian, Jake Tashjian
Published by Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) on April 3rd 2018
ISBN: 1627798927
Pages: 272
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The seventh book in the “My Life” series,  “My Life as a YouTuber” finds Derek Fallon taking a class on how to make his own YouTube videos. Set up in the same way as the others in the series, this story begins with Derek and his friends doing something innocent enough, but Derek can’t seem to help himself and quickly makes a series of bad decisions. Derek decides to use the family’s Capuchin monkey, Frank, in his videos without telling his parents or his teacher, and gets caught up in trying to get subscribers and video views and competing with his classmates whose videos are much more popular.

While this book is fairly formulaic, as with the rest of the series, kids will relate to the topical social media story line and to Derek’s struggles. Purchase where the series is popular.

Reviewed by Kara Reiman, Walker Memorial Library, Westbrook