Janie Hannagan is an independent, 17-year-old senior at Fieldridge High School, living at home with her alcoholic mother and trying to find ways to fund her future college education. The book begins with multiple flashbacks, all leading to Janie's extraordinary powers and where she stands in the present day.

Janie's mother, who isn't even considered a main character because she is never there for Janie and is always in her bedroom drunk and hungover.

Melinda Jeffers, Carrie's other best friend, is one of the rich kids Carrie hangs out with.

Captain Fran Komiski, Cabel's boss, and the one who is in charge of the drug-busting operation.

Also a dream catcher, she helps Janie realize her abilities.

Miss Stubin, an elderly woman who lives in Heather Home where Janie works.

She becomes entangled in the drug bust in the end. She has recurring nightmares of the death of her younger brother, who drowned.

Carrie Brandt, Janie's best friend, who usually hangs out with the wealthier kids.

He is also plagued with dreams of killing a man who Janie later realizes is his father. He has a covert identity and helps police with drug busting. He does not play a major role until late in the story.

Cabel Strumheller, who develops a romantic relationship with Janie and is the only one who knows her secret.

She is able to see into other people's dreams and whenever she sees someone in class or riding the bus sleeping, she starts to get paralyzed when this happens. She tells us what is going on in her life, and she is the most important character. Wake debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list for children's chapter books, and garnered several awards for young adult literature. The two books that follow Wake in the trilogy are Fade and Gone. The book is set up in a diary like form, specifying the date and time at which each event occurs. The novel follows Janie through parts of her young adulthood, focusing mainly on the events that occur during her senior year, in which she meets an enigmatic elderly woman, and becomes involved with Cabel, a loner and purported drug-dealer at Fieldridge High School.

Wake (Stylized WAKE) is a 2008 novel by Lisa McMann centered on seventeen-year-old Janie Hannagan's involuntary power which thrusts her into others' dreams.

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