Dionis Dencey Coffyn
She is a young Quaker girl living in Nantucket in the early 1800s.
Sammie Jetsam
He is a boy who lives on Injun Hill and is ridiculed because of his mixed heritage.
Tom Coffyn
He is a captain of a whaling ship.
Hopestill
She is Dencey's best friend.
North Water Street Children
They are the children who attend the new Coffin School for privileged children.
Fragmenters
This is the nickname of the boys who attend a certain school.
Lydia Coffyn
She is a wife and mother who has the task of taking care of her family in the absence of her husband who is out on the West Coast looking for whales.
Injun Jill
She is an alcoholic woman who lives on the edge of town.
Quakers
These are the main religious leaders in the story.
Stephen
His wife dies while he is out to...
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