Thence comes much of the book's poignancy and humor. : Be Prepared (9781626724457) by Brosgol, Vera and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Too late: she is committed, and has to stay.
Her friends live in fancy houses and their parents can afford to send them to the best summer. Vera's hopes of fitting in are dashed: she is placed with older girls who patronize her, her Russian is too tentative, and roughing it freaks her out. Buy Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol for 22.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. Camp songs are sung in Russian Russian speech (a constant) is represented by English within brackets and each week the boys and girls compete in a capture-the-flag contest called napadenya (attack). The setting appears to be (guesswork here) based on a real-life camp run by the Organization of Russian Young Pathfinders (Организация Российских Юных Разведчиков, or ORYuR) or some similar Russian Scouting in Exile group. It's all about being Russian, all the time. " I had to go." Vera and her little brother Phil do go, and here is where Be Prepared takes off, as it conjures the distinctive setting of a Russian scouting camp, dotted with Russian signage and Orthodox icons.
Most of her schoolmates go away to camp every summer, leaving Vera adrift and bored, but when she learns of a camp where "everyone would be Russian like me," she dares to hope that it will ease the pain of being different.
However, whereas Brosgol's Anya seemed determined to shed her Russianness, Vera thrills to the prospect of attending an all-Russian camp in the New England woods.
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