''The Screech Owls'' is a series of juvenile fiction novels by Canadian author
Roy MacGregor. There are currently 27 titles in the series, all published by
McClelland & Stewart
McClelland & Stewart Limited is a Canadian publishing company. It is owned by Random House of Canada, Penguin Random House of Canada, a branch of Penguin Random House, the international book publishing division of German media giant Bertelsmann.
...
.
Summary
The series centers around a fictional hockey team, however it incorporates actual events and locations, such as the Quebec Peewee Invitational in
Quebec
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, Canada. and the
1998 Winter Olympics
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and
2002 Winter Olympics
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in
Nagano Nagano may refer to:
Places
* Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan
** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture
*** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics
*** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano
*** Nagano Universi ...
, Japan and
Salt Lake City
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, United States, respectively.
There does not appear to be a clear time line of events in the series. Although MacGregor often refers back to events that occurred in previous books in the series, the static ages of the players and the seemingly never-ending hockey season contradict any definite time line.
The books themselves, all of which are told from the point of view of
team captain
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, Travis Lindsay, provide light action and mystery for the young reader. Terrorists, murderers, kidnappers, ghosts and other improbable anomalies befall the preteen in between, and sometimes during, their hockey games and tournaments.
Awards and recognition
''The Screech Owls'' Series has won the Our Choice Award and the Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award. The series has also been shortlisted for several awards, including the
Arthur Ellis Award
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.
Television show
''
Screech Owls'' aired on
YTV from September 1, 2000 to February 1, 2002. It was nominated for Best Children's or Youth Series or Program at the 16th
Gemini Awards in 2001.
Jonathan Malen
Jonathan Malen is a Canadian actor, best known for providing the voice for Jimmy Z in '' Wild Kratts''.
Personal life
Jonathan Malen and actress Lauren Collins
Lauren Felice Collins (born August 29, 1986) is a Canadian actress, best known ...
was nominated at the Young Artist's Awards.
In the USA, it aired alongside other YTV imports (including
Mystery Hunters
''Mystery Hunters'' is a Canadian documentary television series aimed at a young audience. It aired on YTV in Canada and on Discovery Kids and MeTV in the United States. It was also dubbed in Japanese and aired in Japan on NHK.
Teenage hosts A ...
and
Strange Days at Blake Holsey High
''Strange Days at Blake Holsey High'' (also known as ''Black Hole High'') is a Canadian science fiction television series which first aired in North America in October 2002 on Global TV. It is set at the fictional boarding school of the title, wher ...
) on
Discovery Kids
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.
Titles
# ''Mystery at Lake Placid''
# ''The Night They Stole the Stanley Cup''
# ''The Screech Owls' Northern Adventure''
# ''Murder at Hockey Camp''
# ''Kidnapped in Sweden''
# ''Terror in Florida''
# ''The Quebec City Crisis''
# ''The Screech Owls' Home Loss''
# ''Nightmare in Nagano''
# ''Danger in Dinosaur Valley''
# ''The Ghost of the Stanley Cup''
# ''The West Coast Murders''
# ''Sudden Death in New York City''
# ''Horror on River Road''
# ''Death Down Under''
# ''Power Play in Washington''
# ''Secret of The Deep Woods''
# ''Murder at the Winter Games''
# ''Attack on the Tower of London''
# ''The Screech Owls' Reunion''
# ''Peril at the World's Biggest Hockey Tournament''
# ''Trouble at the Top of the World''
# ''Face-Off at the Alamo''
# ''Panic in Pittsburgh''
# ''The Mystery of the Russian Ransom''
# ''The Boston Breakout''
# ''Reality Check in Detroit''
References
External links
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Series of books
Novels set in Ontario
Novels about ice hockey
Junior ice hockey in Canada
McClelland & Stewart books