How to Train Your Dad

From the living legend and award-winning author of hatchet comes 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 dad; he may be brilliant, but bin-diving for food, scouring through rubbish for 'salvageable' Junk and wearing clothes fully sources from garage sales is getting old. Increasingly worried by what his schoolmates will think – and encouraged by his riotous best friend – Carl decides to use a puppy-training pamphlet to 'retrain' His Dad’s mind-set... A crackpot experiment that produces some hilarious results! How to train your dad is a fierce and funny novel about family, friendship and green-living from middle-grade master Gary paulsen.