Will they be able to get rid of this spirit? She has always been weird, but never this weird! This is scary weird! The Stanly kids need to have special ceremony to get rid of the noisy spirit. That is, until the kids find out that their house, Westerly place, is haunted by a poltergeist, also known as a noisy spirit! It apparently chopped the cupid on the banister’s head off very long ago! Then, Amanda starts to act really weird. She is familiar with the supernatural and witchcraft! Everything goes well for the first couple of days of her living with the Stanlys. The kids are awaiting a new stepsister, Amanda. Blair and Esther are the twins in the family. Summary The Headless Cupid is mainly about the Stanly kids, David, who is the oldest, Janie, Blair and Esther. The Stanly kids live in Westerly place and the kids are David, an 11-year-old, Janie, a 5-year-old, and Blair and Esther, who are 4-years-old. Setting The setting in The Headless Cupid is in a very old house in the country side called Westerly place. I also know this because ghosts and poltergeists are not real, therefore, this story is a fantasy. Genre The Headless Cupid is a fiction because witchcraft isn’t real and almost all of the events are mostly fake. The Headless Cupid by: Zilpha Keatley Snyder Adeline Busacco
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