How to train your dad / Gary Paulsen.
Follows a twelve-year-old boy, his free-thinking father, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374314170
- ISBN: 0374314179
- Physical Description: 186 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2021.
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | Ages 10-14. Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers. Grades 4-6. Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers. 1200L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.8 5 513347. |
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Genre: | Humorous fiction. |
Available copies
- 45 of 45 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.
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- 0 current holds with 45 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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North Kansas City Public Library | J PAULSEN (Text) | 0001002469425 | JUV Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary
How to Train Your Dad
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 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.