Walk Two Moons characters

Also known as Sal

Appears from the start

A thirteen-year-old girl traveling west with her grandparents from Ohio to Idaho. She hopes to reach Lewiston by her mother's birthday and fills the drive by telling the story of her friend Phoebe, while her own memories of leaving the family farm in Kentucky press into the journey.

Also known as Gram

Appears from the start

Sal's warm, impulsive grandmother and one of her companions on the trip west. She delights in stories and unexpected sights, affectionately calls Sal her chickabiddy, and helps turn the drive into an adventure.

Also known as Gramps

Appears from the start

Sal's grandfather, Gram's devoted husband, and the driver for most of their journey. His humor and steadiness balance Gram's exuberance, and he listens closely as Sal tells Phoebe's story.

First appears in chapter 2

Sal's mother, whose departure from the family farm shapes everything Sal thinks about on the road. Sal remembers her as loving, restless, and deeply connected to the natural world, while struggling to understand why she left.

First appears in chapter 2

Sal's father, who moves with her from their farm in Bybanks, Kentucky, to Euclid, Ohio, after Sugar leaves. Quiet in his grief, he tries to build a stable home for Sal while maintaining a friendship with Margaret Cadaver that Sal distrusts.

First appears in chapter 3

Sal's imaginative, anxious friend in Euclid. Phoebe sees menace in ordinary events and is convinced that her respectable family is threatened when unexplained messages begin appearing at their house.

First appears in chapter 4

Phoebe's mother, who works hard to meet her family's expectations and is often taken for granted. Her hints that she needs a fuller identity make Sal think about the unhappiness her own mother tried to express.

First appears in chapter 4

Sal's new neighbor and her father's friend. Phoebe's dramatic suspicions about her are strengthened by her unusual surname and occupation as a nurse, but Sal's deeper hostility comes from fearing that Margaret might replace her mother.

First appears in chapter 6

A boy in Sal's class with an unconventional, affectionate family. He teases Sal gently, pays close attention to her, and becomes the focus of feelings she is not yet comfortable naming.

First appears in chapter 13

Sal's enthusiastic English teacher and Margaret Cadaver's twin brother. He urges his pupils to write honestly, though his decision to read their journals aloud creates pain and embarrassment.

Also known as The Lunatic

First appears in chapter 36

A nervous young man whom Phoebe repeatedly sees near her house and assumes is dangerous. His persistence appears to connect him to the Winterbottom family's growing mystery.