The Manny Files
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The Manny Files is a 2006 young adult novel written by Christian Burch and published by Atheneum Books
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The manny is homosexual, it turns out at the end of the novel, when he and Keats' Uncle Max share a kiss.
for outstanding literary merit in children's literature.
Atheneum Books
Atheneum Books was a publishing house and adult publisher created by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. in 1959. He recruited editor Jean E. Karl personally, to come and establish a Children's Book Department in 1961....
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Plot introduction
Keats Dalinger, a shy young boy, learns how to be more outgoing and self-confident after his family hires a new "manny" (male nanny). Keats is a small boy who has many troubles at school. He often watches late night TV with his uncle Max and often asks awkward questions or makes sarcastic remarks from the shows to his teacher and his classmates. He most of the time gets sent to the principal for it.The manny is homosexual, it turns out at the end of the novel, when he and Keats' Uncle Max share a kiss.
Awards
The book received the Josette Frank AwardJosette Frank Award
The Josette Frank Award is an annual children's literary award for fiction that honors a book or books of "outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally".Known as the Children's...
for outstanding literary merit in children's literature.