The Manny

The Manny
By Sarah L. Thomson

Ages: 12 and up
Category: Fiction
Publisher: Dutton
Pub. Date: May 2005
ISBN: 978-0525474135
 Hardcover, $15.99
ISBN: 978-0142408032
 Paperback, $6.89

Justin takes a job as a manny (a male nanny) hoping to meet the girl of his dreams in a classy resort town in the Hamptons. But he soon discovers that taking care of a kid—and his dreams of the perfect girlfriend and the good life—aren’t precisely what he imagined.

Awards & Accolades
“Insightful and very funny…a real winner…first class.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“A plot worthy of Jane Austen …original, funny and light as an ocean breeze.”
—The Washington Post