Despite her last name, Dorothy Sanderson is an ordinary teenager, as obsessed with magic as she is with witchcraft. Things change when she discovers a magical key that opens a new world where Monster Island comes to life. After adventuring in Monsterland, Dorothy discovers that she is a half-human-witch hybrid and comes from a magical family: Clyde Sanderson is her long-lost father. Clyde is the director of Halloweenland Academy, where seven monster families teach the next generation of monster teenagers to become heroes. Now Dorothy is learning to use her magic and live up to her famous surname, along with new friends including Tyler Van Hauntley, Valentina Zombie and Megan Frankiestein.