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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1985
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Ice Chips

1 - The Ice Chips and the Magical Rink (Oct-2019)
2 - The Ice Chips and the Stolen Cup (Feb-2020)
3 - The Ice Chips and the Haunted Hurricane (May-2020)
4 - The Ice Chips and the Invisible Puck (Sep-2020)
5 - The Ice Chips and the Grizzly Escape (Jan-2021)
6 - The Ice Chips and the Killer Wave (Sep-2024)

The Screech Owls

1 - Mystery at Lake Placid (Mar-1995)
2 - The Night They Stole the Stanley Cup (Nov-1995)
3 - The Screech Owls' Northern Adventure (Jun-1996)
4 - Murder at Hockey Camp (Jan-1997)
5 - Kidnapped in Sweden (Sep-1997)
6 - Terror in Florida (Nov-1997)
7 - The Quebec City Crisis (Apr-1998)
8 - The Screech Owls' Home Loss (May-1998)
9 - Nightmare in Nagano (Nov-1998)
10 - Danger in Dinosaur Valley (Mar-1999)
11 - The Ghost of the Stanley Cup (Dec-1999)
12 - The West Coast Murders (May-2000)
13 - Sudden Death in New York City (Nov-2000)
14 - Horror on River Road (Jul-2000)
15 - Death Down Under (Jun-2001)
16 - Power Play In Washington (Nov-2001)
17 - The Secret of the Deep Woods (Jul-2003)
18 - Murder at the Winter Games (Mar-2004)
19 - Attack on the Tower of London (Aug-2004)
20 - The Screech Owls' Reunion (Dec-2004)
21 - Peril at the World's Biggest Hockey Tournament (Feb-2008)
22 - Trouble at the Top of the World (Jan-2009)
23 - Face-Off at the Alamo (Feb-2013)
24 - Panic in Pittsburgh (Oct-2013)
25 - The Mystery of the Russian Ransom (Feb-2014)
26 - The Boston Breakout (Oct-2014)
27 - Reality Check in Detroit (Feb-2015)

Screech Owls Prequel

Kindergarten Caper (Oct-2008)

Book List in Order: 41 titles




  • Travis Lindsay, his best friend, Nish, and all their pals on the Screech Owls hockey team, are on their way to New York for an international peewee tournament. Excitement builds in the team van on the way to Lake Placid. First there are the entertain...



  • Someone is out to steal the Stanley Cup â€" and only the Screech Owls stand between the thieves and their prize!

    Travis, Nish, and the rest of the Screech Owls have come to Toronto for the biggest hockey tournament of their lives â€" only to f...



  • The Screech Owls are on the road again, on a bumpy plane ride way up North that will land them in some very deep trouble!

    When Jesse Highboy’s dad asked the Screech Owls how they felt about going to James Bay to play in the First Nations Pee...



  • Travis, Nish, and the rest of the Screech Owls are in the heart of cottage country to spend a week at summer hockey camp. Joining them for some off-season practice is Sarah Cuthbertson â€" the Owls’ former captain â€" with her new team, the Junior ...



  • The Screech Owls are off to Stockholm to take part in the first-ever International Goodwill Peewee Tournament, featuring teams from Finland, Norway, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Russia, as well as from all over Sweden.

    Not only do the Owls...



  • When Travis, Nish, Sarah, and the rest of the gang pile onto a school bus headed for Florida, the Screech Owls expect a spring break filled with sun, sand, and lots of ice. With luck they may even make it to the peewee tournament final, to be held in...



  • It is Winter Carnival time in beautiful Quebec City. The Screech Owls are in town to join in the winter fun and take part in the biggest hockey tournament on earth: the famous Quebec Peewee Invitational. This is where Guy Lafleur, Wayne Gretzky, and ...



  • When a phone call from Nish gets Travis out of bed one bright winter’s morning, it looks as if it’s going to be the best weekend ever.

    The Screech Owls’ home town lies beneath a thick fall of snow, topped with a layer of hard, smooth, b...






  • Travis and the Screech Owls are flying to Nagano, site of the 1998 Winter Olympics, to play in Big Hat - the same arena where for the first time NHL stars competed for medals and women played Olympic hockey!

    No one is more excited than Nish to...



  • Summer has come early to the town of Drumheller, Alberta. The Screech Owls were expecting deep winter â€" just like back home â€" but when they arrive for the annual Dinosaur Pee Wee Tournament, they find a warm chinook has blown the winter cold away...



  • The Screech Owls have come to Ottawa to play in the Little Stanley Cup peewee tournament. This relaxed summer event honours Lord Stanley himself â€" the man who donated the Stanley Cup to hockey â€" and gives young players a chance to see the wonders...



  • It was Sarah who spotted the first body…

    The Screech Owls’ journey to Vancouver had begun as an innocent hockey road trip. They had come to play in the new “3-on-3” shinny tournament. But when the team headed out to sea to watch the f...



  • Summer’s coming and school will soon be out! The Screech Owls would love to keep playing hockey, but Muck has a better idea. The Owls are going to learn why so many of the great hockey stars are devoted to the weird and wonderful game of lacrosse.<...



  • Nish has done some crazy things â€" but nothing to match this! At midnight on New Year’s Eve he’s planning to “moon” the entire world.

    The Screech Owls have come to New York City for the Big Apple International Peewee Tournament. Theyâ...



  • The Screech Owls are flying around the world to Sydney, Australia, site of the 2000 Olympics, for an exhibition tournament to promote ice hockey in the sports-mad land down under.

    The trip, however, involves much more than hockey. The teams co...



  • The Screech Owls are in Washington, D.C., for the International Goodwill Peewee Championship â€" and Nish is about to become a “news flash” seen round the world! Literally. Because the craziest Owl ever has a brand-new plan: to streak the White H...



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    Now that his hockey career is ending, what will become of his life? Felix Batterinski grew up tough in Northern Ontario where hockey was the only way out of a life of grinding poverty. He got out and enjoyed fame as a hockey "enforcer" for the Philad...



  • It’s summer, and Rachel Highboy, Jesse’s hockey-playing cousin from James Bay, has come to Tamarack to join the Screech Owls on a week-long canoe trip into the wilds of Algonquin Park.

    At the same time, the rookie hero of this year’s St...






  • The Screech Owls have come to Salt Lake City for the Peewee Winter Games â€" with the championship game to be played on the same ice surface where the Canadian men and women won Olympic hockey gold!

    Nish has plans to run his own competition: ...



  • The Screech Owls have won a contest that takes them to London, England, for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to play in-line hockey at historic Wembley Stadium. They leave the morning after Hallowe’en and arrive in time to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day in Br...



  • The Owls are all grown up, and now they’re returning home to play an exhibition game in the town’s new arena. But deep trouble has also come to Tamarack. The Screech Owls are all grown up. Ten years have passed, and Travis, Sarah, Nish, and th...



  • Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award nominee, 2006

    Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice, 2007

    Snow Willow Award nominee 2006

    Forever - we've been doing it absolutely forever!

    Bump has been longing to play in t...



  • The Screech Owls have come to Ottawa, the capital of Canada, to play in the world’s biggest minor league hockey tournament -- more than 500 teams gathering from all over the world! Little does Nish realize, as he befriends the hilarious, daring m...



  • In this prequel to the Screech Owls mystery series, the kindergarten class of Lord Stanley Public School find themselves involved in their very first mystery at the same time as the gang -- Travis, Nish, Sarah and most of the other Owls -- take t...



  • Global warming, conservation, the exotic Arctic -- topics that kids are interested in and can get excited about -- make this latest addition to the bestselling series a winner.

    The Screech Owls have been invited to the Inuit community of P...



  • Celebrating ten years and more than one million books in print!New four-in-one edition!The first four Screech Owls mysteries are now collected in one volume:#13: Sudden Death in New York City#14: Horror on River Road#15: Death Down Under#16: Power Pl...



  • Celebrating ten years and more than one million books in print!New four-in-one edition!The first four Screech Owls mysteries are now collected in one volume:#17 -- The Secret of the Deep Woods#18 -- Murder at the Winter Games#19 -- Attack on th...



  • The Screech Owls have come to the southern city of San Antonio, Texas, a surprising hotbed of American ice hockey. They are here to compete in the San Antonio Peewee Invitational, and between games can explore the fascinating canals that twist and tu...






  • The Owls have been invited to Pittsburgh to compete in the biggest hockey tournament ever to be played on outdoor ice. The open-air tournament is to be held in the massive Heinz Field arena, home of football's mighty Pittsburgh Steelers. But almost a...



  • 9-year-old Gabe (Gabriella) Murray lives and breathes hockey. She's the youngest player on her new team, she has a nifty move that her teammates call "the Gabe," and she shares a lucky number with her hero, Hayley Wickenheiser: number 22. But when he...



  • The Screech Owls have never had such a wonderful surprise. A famous Russian billionaire has offered to pay and fly the whole team to his country. He wants the Owls to visit his homeland so the Russians can learn from the Screech Owls' style of play. ...



  • The Screech Owls are in Boston for the Paul Revere Peewee Invitational. Nish decides to drop out of school. If it worked for Ben Franklin, it will work for him. Sarah becomes increasingly concerned about Samantha's attraction to a group of protesters...



  • The Screech Owls are invited to compete in a four-day skills competition in Detroit. Along with another team, they will be participating in a reality show called Goals & Dreams. They're staying at a fancy hotel, being showered with hockey swag, g...



  • If you could travel through time, who would you want to meet? Lucas Finnigan eats, sleeps and breathes hockey. With his friends Edge, Swift and Crunch, Lucas plays on his hometown’s rink, dreaming of the day when he knows he’ll make the NHL. B...



  • The Ice Chips have time travel down to a science . . . almost. After Ekamjeet “Edge” Singh misses out on their most recent adventure, he convinces his teammates to take another leap through time. But when their magic goes haywire, a hero from the...



  • Clarence Brazier kept a big secret for nearly one hundred years: he didn’t know how to read. This picture book tells the true story of his journey to learn―and then love―to read.

    As a young boy, Clarence cut class and took over the farm ...



  • Practice makes . . . a perfect storm? The Ice Chips are facing a big hurdle at their hometown rink in Riverton. Their biggest rivals, the Stars, have a major advantage, with better gear and a state-of-the-art arena. Without more ice time, the Chip...



  • The third title in the beloved and bestselling Ice Chips series by acclaimed authors Roy MacGregor and Kerry MacGregor and illustrator Kim Smith, featuring a vibrant and diverse cast of characters and inspiring hockey greats Would you play on a te...






  • The fifth title in the beloved and bestselling Ice Chips series by acclaimed authors Roy MacGregor and Kerry MacGregor and illustrator Kim Smith, featuring a vibrant and diverse cast of characters and inspiring hockey greats In their latest advent...



  • The Ice Chips and the Killer Wave has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher....


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Roy MacGregor has published 41 books.

The next book by Roy MacGregor, The Ice Chips and the Killer Wave, will be published in September 2024.

The first book by Roy MacGregor, Never to Be Taken Alive, was published in January 1985.

Yes. Roy MacGregor has 3 series.