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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 circumstancesand encouraged by his off-kilter best friendCarl 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.

How to Train Your Dad

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
      Published 5 October 2021
      ISBN-13 9780374314170
      978-0374314170
      ISBN-10 0374314179
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 circumstancesand encouraged by his off-kilter best friendCarl 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.

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