Robin is becoming a talented composer and arranges music for their shows. Ann, a conscientious student, worries about the distraction from schoolwork but her parents think performing brings her out of her shell, while Gemma and Lydie love the limelight. In the second book, Gemma and Sisters, the three girls and Robin have put together an act and perform around town to entertain senior citizens or to help raise money for nonprofit causes, and become a local sensation. But while she is relieved no one has recognized her, she is determined not to be ordinary, so when a big pageant is planned at school, she wants the lead, no matter what it takes.
Afraid of being mocked or pitied as a has-been, Gemma adopts her cousins’ surname Robinson before she joins Ann at the local comprehensive. Although initially shocked at the Robinsons’ modest home and hurt her mother has abandoned her, Gemma learns to love her cousins, Aunt Alice, and particularly values her uncle Philip’s sage advice. Gemma is surprised to learn her cousins are talented too: Ann sings, Lydie is a gifted dancer, and Robin is musical. When her mother is offered a part in America, Gemma is sent to live with cousins she has never met, 150 miles from London.
Description: Gemma is a child film star, daughter of actress Rowena Bow, but as she approaches adolescence there have been no parts for a while, which frightens her.
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