Margaret Buffie Books In Order

Frances Rain Books In Order

  1. Who Is Frances Rain? (1987)

Watcher’s Quest Trilogy Books In Order

  1. The Watcher (2000)
  2. The Seeker (2002)
  3. The Finder (2004)

Novels

  1. The Guardian Circle (1989)
  2. The Warnings (1989)
  3. Someone Else’s Ghost (1992)
  4. My Mother’s Ghost (1992)
  5. The Dark Garden (1995)
  6. Angels Turn Their Backs (1998)
  7. Out of Focus (2006)
  8. Winter Shadows (2010)

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Margaret Buffie Books Overview

Who Is Frances Rain?

It’s going to be a long, hot summer for 15-year-old Lizzie. Normally a vacation at her grandmother’s northern Manitoba cottage is the highlight of the year, but this summer the whole family is going along, including her new stepfather whom she detests. To escape the family’s bickering, Lizzie explores a nearby island, where she finds the remains of an old cabin and uncovers a pair of spectacles. When she tries on the old glas*ses she is surprised to find herself watching a woman and girl from the past. Lizzie is determined to find out who these ghosts are, and why they are appearing to her. Enlisting the help of her grandmother’s teenage neighbor, Alex, she puts together clues about the ghosts’ identities and in doing so, finds a way to help her estranged family reunite. It’s a compelling story, carrying young readers from the present to the past and back again.

The Watcher

In this first book of The Watcher‘s Quest trilogy, 15 year old Emma has long suspected that something is not quite as it should be in her life. With her long, pale face and white hair, she looks nothing like her parents or frail younger sister. She acts nothing like them, either. While her parents happily pursue their daily routine, Emma senses danger. She knows she must watch over the family day and night but why, she doesn’t know. Things spin out of control when Emma takes a summer job caring for an eccentric elderly neighbor and is drawn into playing a strange board game. She’s suddenly plagued by surreal, frightening dreams that begin to invade her waking hours. Emma is soon hurtled from her quiet farm life into strange worlds of intrigue and terror. As she becomes a participant in a bizarre game of life and death, the mystery surrounding her is solved ? and her future decided.

The Seeker

Here is the second volume of Margaret Buffie’s trilogy The Watcher s Quest. Emma s Earth mother, Leto, is dying. Longing to be reunited with her human daughter, Ailla, who was stolen at birth, she has lost her will to live. Emma has pledged to find the 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.

The Finder

When Emma stumbles into the world beyond the portal against the orders of Histal, Master of the Watcher’s Campan she finds a place of danger, intrigue and deadly Game Playing. Everything she values and everyone she loves is suddenly at stake. 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 Finder is the third book in The Watcher’s Quest trilogy. The previous two books in the series are The Watcher and The Seeker.

The Warnings

When Rachel moves in with her great aunt, she begins to understand the evil reasons behind her premonitions that something bad is going to happen and the strange voices that she hears. VY. K. SLJ.

My Mother’s Ghost

Something frightening is happening at Willow Creek Ranch, where Jess and her parents moved after the death of her brother. Jess is seeing things or are they seeing her? Margaret Buffie’s ambitious novel delicately intertwines two stories one set in 1908, the other in the present and explores how Jess deals with her own and her parents’ grief.

The Dark Garden

Sixteen year old Thea is suffering from traumatic amnesia. As she returns home and begins to rediscover who she is, the empty places of her mind fill up with shadowy memories. When she begins to hear voices from the past, she must find out what these ghosts want with her. By facing the ghosts, Thea comes to terms with her life. Her search will have Young Adult readers eagerly turning the pages to the very end.

Angels Turn Their Backs

Fifteen year old Addy panics and runs back to her room, her heart pounding. She can’t do it. She can’t go to school. Addy is afraid afraid of taking even one step out of the house. And it’s worse than that. She can’t hear people when they’re right in front of her, yet she hears voices that no one else can. Addy feels as if she’s falling apart. Where can she turn? Her parents have just split up and her one real friend is a thousand miles away. Addy wishes she were back at her old school, but she knows there’s no going back. The trouble is, she can’t move forward. She can’t even leave her room. Angels Turn Their Backs is a compelling, supernatural thriller about a girl whose life is suddenly turned upside down by agoraphobia.

Out of Focus

Sometimes it’s a really good idea to put down your camera and take time to see what’s going on in your own life. Bernice Dodd, photographer For sixteen year old Bernice Dodd, Black Spruce Lodge is a lucky break. No more roach infested apartments or bullies in the hallways. No more avoiding the landlord or sneaking away in the middle of the night because the rent is overdue. But some things will probably never change. Bernie will still have to take care of her younger siblings. Her mother will keep disappearing on drinking binges and find yet another creep of a boyfriend. And Bernie’s anger toward her mother will continue to grow. Could Black Spruce Lodge be the family’s last chance to get their lives in focus? Will Bernie find some perspective on her emotions, on Jack, the boy next door, and on Tony, the good looking novelist across the lake? One thing is very clear, though: rage doesn’t let go without a fight…

Winter Shadows

Cass feels the long Winter Shadows on her heart. Her mother died of cancer and her father has remarried a woman who has moved into their old Manitoba house with her nasty, babyish daughter and an attitude that’s very hard to take. Christmas promises to be a miserable time. More than a century earlier, Christmas is proving to be difficult for Beatrice, too, for she has shadows of her own. Some are cast by her circumstances. She sees the growing prejudice against people like her who are of mixed Cree and Scottish backgrounds. And like Cass, she has a stepmother. Her father’s new wife is threatened by Beatrice and is driving a wedge into the family. Beatrice can only be sure of her beloved Cree grandmother, relegated to a room upstairs. When a way of escape presents itself to Beatrice by way of an eligible bachelor, she is torn by the choice it offers her. Should she settle for a man she doesn’t love or address the problems at home? Through her journal, she explores the answer and, at the same time, inspires Cass to find the strength she needs to face her own situation. Margaret Buffie’s great skill as a storyteller creates a splendid, engaging novel that offers readers a rich combination of fine history, suspenseful shifts in time, and unforgettable characters.

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