The Complete Screech Owls, Volume 3

Celebrating ten years and more than one million books in print!

The third four-in-one edition to celebrate ten years of an award-winning, bestselling series.

#9: Nightmare in Nagano
The Screech Owls can't believe their good luck! They are flying thousands of miles to Nagano, Japan, the host city for the 1998 Winter Olympic Games - and they'll be playing in Big Hat, the Olympic arena. The attractions of Japan are quickly forgotten, however, when the mayor of Nagano is murdered at the tournament's opening-night banquet. Who would want such a nice man dead? And what has it got to do with the Screech Owls? . . . And what is the source of Nish's new superhuman powers?

#10: Danger in Dinosaur Valley
Summer has come early to the town of Drumheller, Alberta. Drumheller is the "Dinosaur Capital of Canada," home of the fierce Albertosaurus - cousin to Tyrannosaurus rex - whose ancient bones were discovered here more than one hundred years ago. One day when Nish returns from mountain biking, he claims he almost became breakfast for a living, breathing Albertosaurus! Of course his friends don't believe him, but when Travis, Sarah, and their teammates go for their own ride in the hills, they come back with a monstrous story that makes international headlines.

#11: The Ghost of the Stanley Cup
The Screech Owls have come to Ottawa to play in the Little Stanley Cup peewee tournament. Mr. Dillinger is also taking them to visit some of the region's famous ghosts: the ghost of a dead prime minister; the ghost of a man hanged for murder; the ghost of the famous painter Tom Thomson. At first the Owls thought this was Mr.Dillinger's best idea ever, until Travis and his friends begin to suspect that one of these ghosts could be for real.

#12: The West Coast Murders
The Screech Owls' journey to Vancouver had begun as an innocent hockey road trip. They had come to play in the new "Three-on-three" shinny tournament. But when the team headed out to sea to watch the first whales of the season return to the West Coast, the dream trip turned into a horrifying adventure. Two bodies - one a dolphin, one a man - bobbing in the tide. And when Nish stared down at the floating, twisting body of the man and announced "We know him!" the Screech Owls also knew they were in the middle of a baffling mystery.


Screech Owls books have won the Our Choice Award and the Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award. They have been endorsed by the Canadian Toy Testing Council and shortlisted for the Silver Birch Award, the Red Cedar Award, the Arthur Ellis Award, the Ottawa-Carleton Award, and the Palmarès de Communication-Jeunesse.

Children's Literature

In celebration of over ten years and more than one million books in print, the first four "Screech Owls Mysteries" for middle grade readers are now collected in one volume: "The Secret of the Deep Woods," "Murder at the Winter Games," "Attack on the Tower of London," and "The Screech Owls' Reunion." This hefty paperback version is great reading for kids who love hockey or just love reading a great story about kids having lots of adventures while trying to solve a mystery. It is no wonder that Canadian Roy MacGregor's "Screech Owl" books have won the Our Choice Award, the Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award and others. The twenty-book series, including of course the four bundled together here, centers on the Screech Owls, a competitive peewee hockey team coached by ex-pro player Muck Munro in the small town of Tamarack, and open to both boys and girls. Each mystery stars Nish, Jake, Travis, Sarah, Fahd, Liz, Data' and others as they track down clues in between matches on the ice. The spot-on' characterization and dialogue of his young heroes, as well as the thrilling sports action sequences and suspenseful sleuthing, will certainly have kids reading the individual books in this collection at a fast clip and asking for more. Reviewer: Dianne Ochiltree

Roy MacGregor has been involved in hockey all his life. Growing up in Huntsville, Ontario, he competed for several years against a kid named Bobby Orr, who was playing nearby Parry Sound. He later returned to the game when he and his family settled in Ottawa, where he worked for the Ottawa Citizen and became the Southam National Sports Columnist. He still plays old-timers hockey and has been a minor-hockey coach for more than a decade.

Roy MacGregor is the author of several classics in the literature of hockey. Home Game (written with Ken Dryden) and The Home Team were both No. 1 national bestsellers. He has also written the game’s best-known novel, The Last Season. His other books include Road Games, The Seven A.M. Practice, and, most recently, A Life in the Bush, a memoir of his father. He has also written books about native leaders and the Ottawa Valley.

Roy MacGregor is now a senior columnist for the National Post. He and his wife, Ellen, live in Kanata, Ontario. They have four children, Kerry, Christine, Jocelyn, and Gordon.