Books published by publisher Margaret Buffie

The Seeker was originally published by Kids Can Press in 2002Emma Sweeney has the potential to become an exceptional Watcher, but her instructors are losing patience with her. Raised by an Earth family, Emma is prone to emotional human behavior that gets the better of her logical Watcher instincts.Emma has pledged to find her adopted mother's missing child and restore order to her adopted family's life. But the quest becomes a dangerous race when Emma realizes she isn't the only one searching for Ailla.Emma and her allies become pawns in a game played by power hungry beings for whom victory must be had - at any price.

The Finder was orginally published by Kids Can Press in 2004.Emma Sweeney knows she has a mysterious link to the world beyond the portal, but what can it be?When she stumbles into that world with her friend, Pictree Bragg - against the orders of Histal, Master of the Watchers Campan - she finds a place of danger, intrigue and deadly game playing. Emma's powers are constantly tested and threatened in this new world. Can she solve the ominous puzzles set up in the vast and treacherous maze? It won't be easy. But when Emma feels her weakest, she discovers an inner strength she did not realize she had....

The Watcher was originally published in 2000 by Kids Can Press, Toronto, Ontario.Growing up is the least of fifteen-year-old's Emma's problems. Her mother's words prove prophetic when Emma is hurtled from her quiet farm life into strange worlds of intrigue and terror.Things spin out of control when Emma takes a summer job looking after an eccentric elderly neighbor and is drawn into playing a strange board game. For the first time in her life, she dreams -- surreal, frightening dreams that gradually begin to invade her waking hours.Nominated for the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award and picked by the New York Library for their Books for the Teenage list, The Watcher is the first book in the popular and exciting Watcher's Quest Trilogy.

Rachel hears strange voices. She sees things that aren't there. She always knows whens something bad is going to happen. And she hates it. Some people may call Rachel's Warnings a gift - a power - but Rachel thinks she is living a nightmare. That was before she moved in with her great-aunt Irene. Before she realized she wasn't crazy. And now she understands the reason for the Warnings.The Warnings was a 1989 Notable Canadian Fiction Book, Canadian Library Association

Angels Turn Their Backs was orginally published by Kids Can Press in 1998.Fifteen-year-old Addie Jarrick is smart, funny, and loves to laugh. She does well in school and adores reading, old movies and needlework. But suddenly her parents split up, and Addie and her Mom move away from Toronto, leaving behind Addie's school, her father, and the one real friend Addie thought she had.Even when she was a kid, Addie tended to be fearful. But now she is falling apart. She can't hear people when they are right in front of her, but she can hear voices that no one else can. The world has become hostile, and the only safe place is her apartment in a ramshackle Winnipeg house.Addie is terrified. She must have gone crazy....and can't see anyway back to the normal world.