Before Pensacola, Piper Reed had lived many places including California, Texas, Guam, Mississippi, and New Hampshire. Just when a place began to feel like home the moving van would show up and the Reed family would move again. That's just the way life is in the Navy. Piper's dad is a Chief in the U.S. Navy and has just left for ship duty. He will be gone for six long months.

Piper is in the fourth grade and a member of The Gypsy Club, a club that Piper had started when they lived in San Diego. She is also the middle child with one older sister, Tori, and one younger sister, Sam. Piper decides The Gypsy Club should have a dog show and she sets her sights on training the family dog, Bruna, to do all sorts of amazing tricks. Turns out Bruna isn't quite as easy to train as Piper had thought she would be. Piper has scheduled the dog show to be in the summer after her father returns from ship duty, and she's hoping to win the trophy to impress him.