Vera doesn't feel like she fits in with her rich neighbor kids at all, so she is looking forward to going to Russian camp for the summer, where she and the other kids will speak and practice their Russian together. It turns out, the other campers are five years older than Vera, and want nothing to do with her. There is no electricity, plumbing, or candy, and the outhouse--the outhouse is unmentionable. Somehow, Vera must survive here for two hilarious weeks.