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