GRANMA "D"DROOTZ is eighty-one and proud of it - when she remembers to be. A sometimes artist, mostly pain - she is Willa's only other female ally in a house over-run with male energy (and tons of dirty laundry).
HAZEL and DICKIE HILL are always in the middle of one kind of fight or another. Trouble follows wherever Hazel goes - and kid brother Dickie seems to get dragged along for the bumpy ride.
HERBIE DROOTZ is Osacr's adopted sister from China. She is very mischevious, energetic baby who has bonded instantly to all the families of the Dead End - as well as to Oscar's three-legged dog, HAGGIS.
