Fountaindale Public Library

How to train your dad, Gary Paulsen

Label
How to train your dad, Gary Paulsen
Language
eng
resource.accompanyingMatter
technical information on music
Form of composition
not applicable
Format of music
not applicable
Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
How to train your dad
Music parts
not applicable
Oclc number
1273555935
Responsibility statement
Gary Paulsen
Summary
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
Target audience
adolescent
Transposition and arrangement
not applicable
Classification
Contributor
Narrator
Mapped to

Incoming Resources

  • Has instance
    1