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How to Train Your Dad

From the legendary author of Hatchet, a laugh-out-loud eco-adventure 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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 192
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-374-31417-0
  • EAN
  • 9780374314170
  • Release date
  • 2021
  • Age restriction
  • 10+