My book (the spiderwick chronicles) has a main character called jared grace accompanied by his brother and sister (Simon and malory) I think jareds character is good because he has an emotional background (father left in a divorce)  and that brings a life like feel to him. jared reacted in self defence against a mythical fairy a browne (thimbletack) but eventually found common ground, although the goblins out side didn’t. the language the people used was similar to