The Headless Cupid, Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Headless Cupid, Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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The Headless Cupid

Author: Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/22/2009


Synopsis

Eleven-year-old David is about to meet his new stepsister, Amanda, who is only one year older than he is. Amanda arrives at their big old house wearing a huge tattered shawl and carrying a sharp-eyed crow in a cage. She is hardly what David expects. Before long, she introduces David to a strange world of witchcraft and the occult. At first, spells and potions are fun. He enjoys the spooky chants and smoky seances. Even his younger brother and sisters join in, making sure their parents suspect nothing. But when rocks of all sizes start flying around the house and strange things go crash in the night, David begins to fear the strange forces at work. Zilpha Keatley Snyder has written several popular children's books. A former teacher, she lives in an old house similar to the one in The Headless Cupid. She thinks it, too, may have a resident ghost. Whether you believe in spirits or not, this Newbery Honor Book is sure to captivate your imagination

Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott

9/3/23 addendum: I just finished re-reading this as a bedtime book with my daughter. I remember reading this when I was in fourth-grade, and my daughter just recently started back to school as a fourth-grader. She wasn't sure about this to begin with, but as we kept reading it, she really got into i......more

Goodreads review by Abigail

The four Stanley children - David, Janie, Esther and Blair - are fascinated by their new stepsister Amanda in The Headless Cupid, drawn by her claims to be a practitioner of the occult. When Amanda offers to teach the children about the supernatural world, the “ordeals” she arranges to test them see......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

I hadn't read this book in a hundred years, and suddenly thought to read it aloud to the kids! They loved it, and got really into figuring out if there was a poltergeist or if Amanda was just playing pranks. Spooky without being too scary, even for my 6yo.......more