Characters in Every Heart a Doorway

Nancy Whitman

Newly arrived student, returned from the still Halls of the Dead, struggling to be accepted as she is by a family that wants her old self back.

Also in Through Gates of Garnet and Gold

Eleanor West

Headmistress of the school for children returned from other worlds.

Also in Down among the sticks and bones

Kade Bronson

Practical, level-headed student and Eleanor West's nephew, cast out of his goblin-market Fairyland after its rules refused to recognize him as a boy.

Jacqueline (Wayward Children)

Twin sister, precise and controlled, shaped by years apprenticed to a mad scientist in a gothic world of monsters.

Jillian (Wayward Children)

Twin sister taken as an apprentice by the vampire Master of the Moors, drawn to the violence and belonging of her adopted world.

Christopher (Wayward Children)

Gentle student who can call the bones of the dead to dance, having spent years in a skeleton world built on the border of Mariposa.

Sumi

Nancy's whirlwind first friend and roommate at the school, from the Nonsense world of Confection.

Also in Come Tumbling Down, Through Gates of Garnet and Gold