Gemma
Noel Streatfeild
Gemma is a movie star who isn't offered parts anymore... So when her mother goes to America to take part in a movie, Gemma isn't allowed to go with her and is sent to live with her Robinson cousins.
Gemma is really worried when she comes to know that she will have to stay 5 years with her cousins: this meant she'd have to go to school there, in Headstone. She's scared of what the other students will think about her, a star who isn't offered parts any more. And what is school like? She had always had a governess and had no clue of what school was like.
With her aunt's help she changes her surname from Bow to Robinson, in this way she will not be recognized...
So Gemma goes to school and she finds out life with her cousins is full of excitement: she forms a singing group with them and she even studies serious drama!