Accidentally transported along The Magic Strand into an alternate-earth realm of proud and powerful magical creatures called Glymps, a human three-year-old girl, Aurora, spends ten years growing up as an alien in a miniature magical world. Sent back to modern-day earth at 14 to fulfill a mission to discover why the winged Glymps who have traveled the strand for centuries are suddenly vanishing, never to return, "Rory" is taken in by a Montana family. Adjusting to pizza, shopping and high school with amateur online movie-critic and "brother" Andy, Rory begins to discover her humanity as a member of a gifted-school club. Struggling to understand American life, her friends seem to change before her eyes: is this normal for human teenagers or is it Glymp magic? Together, the club members brave a series of fast-paced adventures, putting their belief in magic to the test to save the missing Glymps.