The Headless Cupid is a 1972 Newbery Honor Book which has truly stood the test of time. Snyder's second novel to be named a Newbery Honor Book, The Headless Cupid is an engaging, suspenseful mystery for young readers, and showcases the author's sensitive appreciation of the subtleties of childhood experience. But when David and Amanda discover that their house was once believed to have a poltergeist, and Amanda holds a seance to contact the ghost, a series of frightening incidents occur.The first in a series of titles about the Stanley children (continuing with: The Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case, Blair's Nightmare, and Janie's Private Eyes), this charming family drama is quite similar to The Egypt Game, in the sense that events which at first appear to be supernatural, are later discovered to be the result of more mundane human agency. When Amanda offers to teach the children about the supernatural world, the “ordeals” she arranges to test them seem mostly aimed at antagonizing her own mother Molly, whom she blames for her parents’ divorce. 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.
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