Abigail – The ghost girl who died of drowning.

Deadhead Jerry – A ghost of a hippie boy who died by choking on a cigarette by mistake.

DJ – A DJ killed in a gang fight at a party, caused by his refusal to play popular music.

Call Me Kim – A girl with several phones who died from radiation from her mobile.

Metal Mike – A boy with earbud headphones who died listening to metal music in his driving test.

Named because a large portion of his skull is missing.

Mr Brain – The class teacher and only adult in Dead Ed.

Died by choking on her piccolo during a concert solo.

Piccolo Pam – A friendly ghost who introduces Charlotte to Dead Ed.

She also belittles Charlotte's obsession with popularity, as she was murdered by a popular boy on the way to a school dance. She wants to move on, and thinks Charlotte is shallow and selfish for not helping her classmates.

Prue or Prudence Shelly – The leader of the dead teenagers.

Dead Ed class – A group of dead teenagers who become Charlotte's new classmates:.

Wendy Anderson and Wendy Thomas aka The Wendys – Petula's two best friends, cheerleaders who share the same first name and brain and do everything together.

A gothic teenager, and the only one who can see Charlotte as a ghost.

Petula Kensington – Damen's girlfriend.

Damen Dylan – Charlotte's crush and Petula's boyfriend.

She has a crush on Damen, and plans to be with him, but chokes to death on a gummy bear before carrying it out.

Charlotte Usher (also called ghostgirl) – the protagonist of the novel, a senior in High school.The audiobook releases of ghostgirl (released August 2009) and ghostgirl: Homecoming (released November 2009), from Recorded Books in 2009, are read by actress Parker Posey and feature a score by Vince Clarke of Erasure fame. It was followed by a sequel in July 2009 called ghostgirl: Homecoming, and a third book, ghostgirl: Lovesick was released in July 2010. ghostgirl has been printed in several different languages around the world, including Spanish and French. The young adult novel was published on Augby Little, Brown and Company, and hit the New York Times Bestseller list, Chapter Books, on September 14, 2008. It is the story of high school senior 'Charlotte Usher', a misfit outsider whose desperation to be popular lives on even after her sudden death. Ghostgirl is the debut novel from author and filmmaker Tonya Hurley.

Ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley