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  • How to Train Your Dad

  • By: Gary Paulsen
  • Narrated by: Dan Bittner
  • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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How to Train Your Dad

By: Gary Paulsen
Narrated by: Dan Bittner
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Publisher's summary

From the legendary author of Hatchet, 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 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 and untangling some of the ties that bind from middle-grade master Gary Paulsen.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

©2021 Gary Paulsen (P)2021 Macmillan Audio
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How to Train your Dad is a funny story about a kid who wants to try to change his Dad's point of view about clothes, money and priorities.

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