Nine-year-old Emma O'Fallon experiences difficulties at home and at school while trying to disrupt the growing attachment between Irish nanny Annie and her boyfriend Bo during a family camping trip and struggling with her friendship with best friend Luisa.
Martha accompanies Helen and Alice when they go camping, but when Ronald scares them with tales of a mythical monster living in the woods, Martha becomes afraid.
Fifth-grader Piper and her sisters are thrilled about their first-ever camping trip until they learn it will be at Halloween, but other Navy families join them, including an annoying new member of the Gypsy Club.