About the Book: 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 sourced 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 dads mindset . . . a crackpot
experiment that produces some hilarious