| Miss | Abbott | The seamstress. |
| Austin | Bishop | Katy's friend. |
| Laura Paisley | Bishop | The baby that Mrs. Bishop found in the garden. |
| Mr. | Bishop | A lawyer. Austin and Paul's father. |
| Paul | Bishop | Austin's brother. |
| Mrs. | Cooper | One of Katy's neighbors. |
| Miss | Dunbar | Katy's teacher. |
| Mary | Goldstein | One of the fire victims. Deceased. |
| Mr. | Ledbetter | The feed store owner. |
| Floyd | Lehman | The boy that Peggy Likes. |
| Miss | Moody | Katy's new teacher. |
| Ben | Shafer | Doc Thatcher's old classmate. Harriet's husband. |
| Benny | Shafer | Mrs. Shafer's son. |
| Harriet | Shafer | One of Doc Thatcher's patients. |
| William | Shafer | Mrs. Shafer's son. |
| Mrs. | Stevenson | One of Thatcher's neighbors. |
| Anna | Stoltz | Peggy's sister. |
| Jacob | Stoltz | The retarded boy that Katy befriended. Peggy's brother. |
| Mrs. | Stoltz | Peggy's mother. |
| Peggy | Stoltz | The newly hired girl of Doc Thatcher. |
| Caroline | Thatcher | Katy's mother. |
| Henry | Thatcher | Katy's father. The town's doctor. |
| Katharine | Thatcher | Narrator and Protagonist. Aka: Katy. |
| Mary | Thatcher | Katy's baby sister. |
| Mattie | Washington | One of Doc Thatcher's patients. |
| Miss | Winslow | The librarian. |
| Jessie | Wood | Katy's friend. |
| Dahlia | | One of Doc Thatcher's horses. |
| Edward | | Katy's schoolmate. |
| Eleanor | | Katy's aunt. |
| Flora | | The Bishop's newly hired girl. Levi's sister. |
| Goldy | | The doll that Jacob gave to Katy. |
| Gram | | Katy's grandmother. |
| Jackson | | Doc Thatcher's clerk. |
| James | | Caroline's brother. Katy's uncle. |
| Jed | | One of Doc Thatcher's horses. |
| Judy | | Doc Thatcher's former dog. Deceased. |
| Kate | | One of the fire victims. |
| Kenneth | | One of Katy's friends. |
| Levi | | Thatcher's stable boy. |
| Molly | | One of the fire victims. |
| Naomi | | Katy's family cook. |
| Nell | | Peggy's sister who lives in Mr. Bishop's attic. |
| Norman | | One of Katy's friends. |
| Pepper | | Katy's dog. |
| Punch | | One of Doc Thatcher's horses. |
| Pup | | Jacob's dog. |
| Rosie | | One of the fire victims. |
| Sturges | | One of Doc Thatcher's patients. |
| Whittaker | | The dry-goods store owner. |
