Characters
- Winifred Beth (Winnie) Barringer - a tomboy about to start sixth grade, protagonist
- Paul and Helen Barringer - Winnie's parents
- The Garbers - The African-American family who move into Iggie's old house:
- Glen - The oldest boy, Winnie's age (sixth grade), who is mild-mannered and level-headed.
- Herbie - Younger boy, starting fifth grade, who is more dramatic, angry, and sarcastic.
- Tina - Youngest, eight years old.
- Dorothy Landon - Snooty neighbor who is most adamant about getting the Garbers out of the neighborhood.
- Clarice Landon - Mrs. Landon's prissy daughter, whom Winnie despises but eventually feels sorry for due to her mother.
Read more about this topic: Iggie's House
Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of human history.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value; they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)