How to train your dad
Follows a twelve-year-old boy, his free-thinking father, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down.
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Fathers and sons > Juvenile fiction. |
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Fiction. |
- ISBN: 9780374314170
- Physical Description 186 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2021.
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How to Train Your Dad
From the legendary author of Hatchet , a laugh-out-loud misadventure about a boy, his free-thinking dad, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down. Twelve-year-old Carl is fed up with his father's single-minded pursuit of an off-the-grid existence. His dad may be brilliant, but dumpster-diving for food, scouring through trash for salvageable junk, and wearing clothes fully sourced from garage sales is getting old. Increasingly worried about what schoolmates and a certain girl at his new school might think of his circumstances--and encouraged by his off-kilter best friend--Carl adopts the principles set forth in a randomly discovered puppy-training pamphlet to "retrain" his dad's mindset . . . a crackpot experiment that produces some very unintentional results. This is a fierce and funny novel about family, green-living, and untangling some of the ties that bind from middle-grade master Gary Paulsen.