The book I just got finished reading is The Headless Cupiud.It was a great book if you thriller books.
One of the bad points in the book is that it starts off kinda slow, and someties was confusing in the middle and near the end.
The good points of the book are when a a lot of wierd stuff start happing and Molly (the stepmom) starts getting really scared and she wants to move out of the house. Another good part of the book is when Amanda starts to actally talk to her mom and offers to teach the kids about the supernatural.

This book really caught my attention,because I just love scary books and this one looked like a scary book. I just got finished reading this book,and I can't get my mind off of it!

The book is about a boy called David and his Brothers and his sisters. Oh, he also has a step sister called Amanda. When she comes to live with David, weird things start happening, like rocks just start appearing out of no where! Soon really weird stuff start happining that is very scary.

And at the end they finally find the Cupid's head and things turn out all right!

i was just going through amazon to find titles of books i had read as a child. i was pleasantly surprised to find "the headless cupid" still in print. reading this book as an impressionable 7-year old in the early eighties, i wondered around the house with an aluminum foil triangle on my forehead like amanda in the story. the mysterious ending of the novel (which i won't reveal) left a chilling memory that i still carry with me today. these days, i enjoy talking to people my age and asking them what books do they best remember. "the headless cupid" is usually my favorite childhood book about which i ask.

Gib Rides Home was a very sad sorry about a boy who's parents died. There was too much violence, with the teachers beating the children and one boy even died. This story has been called "heart warming" I dissagee. The story line was interesting and the charactors were wonderful, but the ending left you hanging. You never find out if any of the other suffering children received help. This book would have been good and "heart warming" if the author finished the story not left you wondering if Gib ever went back to help the others.

You can ride home with Gib in Zilpha Keatly Snyder's book called Gib Rides Home. it is a story about an orphanage in the early 1900's in downtown Harristown, Kentucky. Since they could remember, Gib and the loyal Jacob were best friends until Gib met the sweet and sour feeling Olivia at Rocking M. Gib and Jacob are seniors in the Lovell House orphanage. Rocking M is Gib's homtown where his mother and father used to live.
Gib hears about getting farmed-out to very miserable people in the Lovell House of Orphaned and Abandoned boys. When he is adopted, he has a lifetime experience in hes own hometown, Rocking M. The reader will love the book because it is full of great description and excitement. Also, you will love the way the author creates pictures for the different settings. A reader who loves horses will love the book as Gib tries to rescue this horse called Black Silk. When you finish this book, you feel a mixture of happiness and sadness. I hope you enjoy as much as I did this emotional story.

This book is so good. It could only have been better if it had told you more about what happens after the end. But there's another one called Gib and the Gray Ghost that tells you that. As a matter a fact I have all ready ordered it. This book is about a goy named Gib wholives at an orphanage. He knows nothing of his past and only has a few jagged memories and he's not sure that there even real. Someone comes for him though. He's just farmed out but they used to know his mother and father. Still he feels a little out of place here. Will these people ever except him?

The Trespassers is a wonderful book. I very much enjoyed it. It is about a girl,Neely;and her brother Grub(Gregory).They find a way into a beutiful old house. Halcyon House was named so because Harold Huchinson the first came to live there in hope of peace and tranquility.Instead terrible things happen.For many years the old housewas deserted ;but Neely and Grub play in it.Yet... is it safe?

THE TRESPASSORS is full of the sort of carefully chosen subtleties and questions that in no way insult the intelligence of its target audience. The sibling dynamic of Neely and Grub is INCREDIBLY poignant and well-written. The author excells in her depiction of an adolescant world with one foot in reality and the other in imagination and doubt. A real page-turner, too! My only complaint is, I felt the story fizzled in the end, settling for a lesson-in-a-paragraph approach. However, the closing paragraph is wonderful, it's been a while since I closed a book with such a smile on my face. RECOMMENDED!

An amazing story about a girl and her younger brother. One summer they find a way to get into Halcyon House. They have lots of fun and get into the middle of a lot of myteries. This is a great novel for kids.Read this book ,it was great!

i have been searching fo the title of this book for three years. i read the whole trilogy when i was younger and it consumed me, and although i couldn't recall the titles of the books, i never forgot the characters and the amazing story. i shouldnt have been surprised when i finnally found the books, and reailzed the author was zilpha keatly-snyder. she is the most amazing and versatile writer of children's and young adult literature i have ever had the pleasure to read. i began reading her with <> and have gone through almost every other book she has written, especially the superb <> and <>. no other writer has combined fun, adventurous, sometimes-otherwordly plots with out being repetetive and telling the same story over and over again. i highly recommend this trilogy to everyone who loves to read, no matter what the age.

set in a mythical planet that shadows our own society, it is an amazing tale that captures the imagination without being complete sci-fi/fantasy. her use of forshadowing is amazing, keeping you held, but never giving away the ending as you watch the truth unfold.

As others, I was aquainted with this book through playing the computer game as a child. Only at the age of 25 did I actually read the book. I was prepared for a letdown as I understood this to be a children's book. Boy was I wrong! the quality of writing is superb, the sheer amount of imagination that has gone into creating this magical, but also highly realized, world, is astounding. THis trilogy deals with the idea of pacifism in a way I have never seen before. This should be a must read for any child, teenager, or adult.

Although few claim this as a classic work of sci-fi/fantasy, it is an excellent book and the beginning of an excellent trilogy. The world Synder created captured my imagination. Through this book I created so much more story in my head that when I suggested others read the book they were puzzled at my adoration, because they did not find what I found in it. This book is only so much in its actual text (thus why people call the characters shallow or plot dull), but the world is so vivid that with my imagination I get so much more out of it. Re-reading the book is always a pleasure, because it brings me back into a world I have spent a lot of time imagining myself in. If pleasure reading is for escape, I find it in this book. It's not to say that there is no adventure or suspense in the book, but it's not like the best sellers.

I too read this book in elementary school, the fifth grade to be exact. My family lived in a very rural area where lonliness permeated every aspect of my life. Our home was old and creepy...The perfect setting in which to read this all too real story. I spent many frightful nights reading this book curled up in my bed. Often I was too scared to even allow my feet to hang over the bed. The witchcraft element is enough to make any curious and impressionable child wonder about the supernatural. I would recommend parent discussion of the contents to help young children with the sometimes overwhelming realities of this story. by Jennifer

I bought this book, after reading good reviews about it, for my daughter when she's a little older. This is an exceptionally creepy book. And just like "The Haunting of Hill House", the author leaves you to decide for yourself if there is something supernatural going on, or if the whole thing is created in the mind of the true-to-life-not-perfect protaganist, or BOTH. This is definitely a book to TALK about after the child has read it. Morals or points to ponder and all that.

The Witches of Worm was a great book. I would recomend this book to any one who likes the author Zilpha Keatley Snyder. It's just one of the great books that she's written!

I think that Libby On Wednesday is a really good book. Libby is a girl who is completely unsocialized and accidentally wins a writing contest. She and five other students that win, start a writing club. The other students are a bully named Gary Greene who everybody calls G.G. (Gary the Ghoul), Alex a geeky boy who is physically challenged, Wendy a popular cheerleader who thinks she's a queen, and Tierney a chunky girl who's into punk. The students start a writing club and read their stories to the other members and say what they liked and give constructive suggestions. Wendy likes to write about teens and their love life, Alex writes parodies, Tierney writes detective stories, G.G. writes gruesome stories about killing, ang Libby writes all kinds of stories that are so good that the other kids think that her famous grandfather wrote them for her. The students all dislike each other. They say mean things about stories that people share with each other. As you read on, you will find that each student has a secret. I recommend this book to anyone over the age of eight.

Libby on Wednesday is a really cool book. The characters are really cool and interesting. The plot is interesting, and a big scene at the end makes this book totally exciting. This is a really great book!

This is a wonderful book! It has a great story, and once you get into it you can't put it down. The characters are all really likeable. This is a great book for anyone to read, not just elementary students (although elementary students will enjoy it, too). This is a totally awesome book!

This is a good story, it is different and fresh, however it has a great start and then it becomes a bit slow. It is not very scary, but it will keep you intrigued.

Amy wants to know everything, especially everything that has anything to do with Stone Hollow, but she is very scared and doesn't there to go up there alone. Then she meets Jason, who's new at her school, and who is also intrigued by the place. He asked her to come with him and explore... will they ever find out the truth??

A girl who has always heard strange stories about Stone Hollow, encounters a friend who takes her there and introduces her to the real strangers of Stone Hollow. Send a few sweet chills up a young spine.

as a kid i read the headless cupid many times. i remeber eading this and never finishing it for some reason now i ddi finish it. it was very good. i t is an exciting kidnapping story. if you look for something with a supernatraul twist like cupid this dosent have as much execept for blair,s vison however it still enjoyable.

I liked this book a lot. This story has action to it and a regular story line to it as well. It was very good. This book had a lot of sense to it and good detail as well as plot. I recommend this book highly! It's most enjoyable.

This book is that rare treat - a children's book that is so multi-faceted and well told that it will capture any adult reader as well.

I found this book looking for something good for my daughter to read, then couldn't give it up to her until I had finished it! A tense, realistic, and heartwarming tale.

I have the feeling that "Song of the Gargoyle" could have been expanded into more of a story than it is. Still, what there is of it is entertaining; the setting is beautifully detailed, the characters are engagingly human, and the gargoyle of the title is a riot.

this book is really interesting on many different fronts. For one, it tells a great story set during Medieval Europe, one about a 13-year old boy who is struggling with his fate as a fugitive as he runs from those who arrested his father, the castle's court jester. The mystery about Tymmon's father is well-paced and the reader, like Tymmon, is given bits and pieces to put together until the end. The book is also representing a good rite-of-passage story as Tymmon wrestles with his own identity and his images (delusions?) of the knighthood he so much desires as well as realizing the legacy that his father left him and the role of surviver, friend, entertainer, and care-taker that he performs as the book goes on. On this journey, the reader watches as a frightened boy, with the help of his wise and strong gargoyle friend, Troth, searches and finds the path towards adulthood. The story is full of great detail that brings all the scenes to life, whether they are deep in the forest, or in the village square, and the mix of realizm and fantasy keep the reader enchanted throughout. The author does take her time to tell the story, but in the end, it really shows how and why Tymmon has made the choices he has. A great read for those looking for something adventurous with a medieval twist.

This book was a pleasure to read. Although it is set in the Middle Ages, the hero faces many universal themes. He deals with a typical teen's embarassment of his parents, he dreams of being famous and powerful, and he also gets scared and lonely. Tymmon's journey is filled with many unforgettable characters and many funny situations. There are some serious issues here as well, such as the need for a person to accept who he is without worrying what others think. I would reccommend this book to any aged person who likes young adult literature. This book is definitely a keeper. Enjoy!

This book was absolutely fabulous. It talks about a young girl named April who comes to live in a town in CA while her mom is touring around the country. She meets a girl name Melanie and her younger brother named Marshall. Melanie and April are fascinated with Egyptian history and love everything to do with Egypt. Soon they find an old storage yard behind an old antique shop. This is now called Egypt. This is where the Egypt Game takes place. Soon there comes three more kids who come to join the Egypt Game. The Egyptians do many ceremonies to the gods,( including a ceremony for the dead which is basically a funeral for one of the girl's dead parakeet). Soon there is a homicide and everyone is forced to stay indoors, but a few weeks later the kids are allowed to play outside again. ...

This book combines a great story of suspense, some of the Egyptian rituals, and so on. The author really lets you get to know the characters of this book. I highly recommend this book!!!

I read this book when I was in the fourth grade. (My best friend and I were reading through the shelf of award winners.) She read it next. As soon as she finished the book, we set up our own game, a cross between the Egypt Game and what we'd understood from her older sister's class production of Macbeth. We had hours of fun playing that way, and I loved having a book that showed characters who played imaginatively. (And there aren't that many role models who don't spend all their time on their computers or on the organized sports field these days. See the preceding review from the person who said that she didn't like the way the characters used too much "ammagination." I ordered this book recently to read aloud to my third graders, and they loved it! Now there are several Games going on in our neighborhood. The book was as good as I remembered it.

I think this was a great book! I'm 13 years old and I just finished reading this book on January 3, 2001. I thouroughly enjoyed this story. The author is truly gifted, and the way she words everything just makes the story come alive. I especially liked the way Zilpha Keatley Snyder described the characters and their personalities. It made me feel that I was right there, in that shed, watching the kids play the Egypt Game. The story couldn't be more realistic if I were in it. Her details are amazing, and I must say, this is now my favorite book. I hope to read more of Ms. Snyder's work in the future, starting with The Gypsy Game.