Oz

Summary

They're the kids you never remember. The kids who quietly stick to the shadows, away from the chaos of the ordinary world. They're the kids who get tripped in the halls and ignored during class, but, a lot of the time, they prefer it that way. They're the Wallflowers, the Weirdos, the Nerds, the Freaks, and the everything in between. They're the kids who never quite fit in and, half the time, the kids who don't want to.

The misfits.

The rebels.

The screw-ups.

The freaks.

The broken.

But not the unfixable.

Not the defeated.

And, well, never alone.
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Dorothy Gale, known to her friends as Gale, (well, if she had any friends) is just trying to find her place on the earth. However, Gale often finds herself blown out of control by the spinning, chattering, whirling, and clattering of the world she lives in. Gale is constantly buffeted by the winds of change and struck by the hailstones of society's rules. So, Gale spends her time dreaming, flying to the calm in the center of the storm to find solace.

Yet the calm doesn't last forever, and Gale often finds herself struggling to hold on, constantly fighting to keep her identity in the sea of plastic faces at her school.

That was when Oz reached down and saved her.

Oz: a strange name for a group, to be sure, but the people who make it up are even more so. It's a band of companionship, forged through what was supposed to be a student body support group but turned out to be so much more.

Oz became a realm of solace for Gale, formed from some of the most unlikely people. Gale begins to feel comfortable there, and she even might have gone as far as to call it home. Oz was a magical place, grounding Gale in the storm of the world and eventually giving her strength to look up into the blistering wind, gaze at the dark thunderheads, and challenge the crackling lightning, saying, "Bring it on."

But when Gale's witch of a principal threatens to disband the group because of the need for another classroom for sports training, Gale begins to feel the shaky foundation of her newfound home begin to topple. Will Gale be able to save her world, thereby saving her own sanity, or will Gale be stuck in the Kansas tornado of the world for the rest of her life?