As long as she has plenty to read, nine-year-old Olivia Brown doesn't mind spending the summer at Aunt Lila's rural home. An hour into the drive from Arlington, Virginia, though, she's already tired of hearing complaints from her eleven-year-old brother Aiden who is easily bored. She's also concerned about getting along with her twelve-year-old cousin Virginia Temple and her brother Jacob, age ten, who will be joining them from Florida.