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How to Train Your Dad

By Gary Paulsen
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Macmillan Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN

9780374314170

How to Train Your Dad

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9780374314170J
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Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Reference or Discussion,Language: Mild Language,Violence: Cruelty to Animals

From the living legend and award-winning author of Hatchet comes a laugh-out-loud middle-grade romp 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 by 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 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 and untangling some of the ties that bind from middle-grade master Gary Paulsen.
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