| Title: The Complete Screech Owls (anthology 4 titles) | | | | passing out cold right in front of the rest of the team. |
| Exciting Read ... Recommended ... 4 stars | | | | Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day in England may prove to |
| The Review | | | | be their undoing. Nish would like to be immortalized in |
| The Complete Screech Owls is a four-in-one edition | | | | Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, after all he is 'Wayne |
| including 'The Secret of the Deep Woods,' 'Murder at | | | | Nishikawa, the world's most twisted and evil hockey |
| the Winter Games,' 'Attack on the Tower of London,' | | | | player. The Screech Owls practice to become top |
| 'The Screech Owls's Reunion.' | | | | notch as in-line hockey players and find themselves |
| The reader is carried along on tour with the Screech | | | | embroiled in another murderous mystery. |
| Owls as they compete world wide. Team captain, | | | | The Screech Owls's Reunion: Travis now teaches high |
| Travis Lindsay, is our guide and will let nothing: not | | | | school in Tamarack, Sam has a son, Muck, The |
| terrorism or murder, sabotage, theft, kidnapping, or | | | | Screech Owls are no longer kids, and they no longer |
| anything else stand in the way of the team on their | | | | play hockey as a team. A decade has passed, the |
| quest for acceptance and success. Founders of the | | | | kids are living their own lives. Data runs a computer |
| team were Muck Munro and Don Dillinger, Muck who | | | | business with Fahd. Sarah is captain of the women's |
| came home to Tamarack, Canada when his junior | | | | Olympic hockey team. Wilson is a police officer. As |
| hockey career was stopped short because a badly | | | | unbelievable as it may seem; Nish is in Las Vegas, |
| broken leg did not heal properly, serves as team | | | | where he is a member the well know group; The |
| coach assisted by his able associate Larry 'Data' | | | | Flying Elvises. The team finds itself embroiled in |
| Ulmar. The team has included players Travis Lindsay, | | | | another murderous mystery when they gather for a |
| Liz Moscovitz, Simon Milliken, Sarah Cuthbertson, Andy | | | | reunion in Tamarack and learn a gambling casino |
| Higgins, Gordie Griffith, Derek Dillinger, Fahd Noorizadeh, | | | | looms on the horizon. |
| Jesse Highboy, Dmitri Yakushev, Wayne Nishikawa, | | | | Writer MacGregor has crafted a long running |
| Lars Johanssen, Wilson Kelly, Samantha Bennett, Willie | | | | Canadian series which has garnered many awards |
| Granger, Jenny Staples and Jeremy Weathers may | | | | and acclaim among young ice hockey readers. Each |
| be the best to date. | | | | of the four books included in this compilation is well |
| The Secret of the Deep Woods opens with defensive | | | | written, fast paced filled with action and just enough |
| play Wayne Nishikawa, Nish, wondering if he might be | | | | gross to intrigue middle grade readers. The mysteries |
| pregnant... his swollen stomach and retching nausea | | | | are integral to the tales, the kids are believable in their |
| are causing him deep concern. The Screech Owls are | | | | behaviors and manners. |
| on a summer camping/canoe trip in Algonquin Park. | | | | I received a soft bound single edition for review, and |
| Nothing goes quite as they expected. | | | | would like to see some of the single editions. I plan to |
| Murder at the Winter Games opens with Travis who | | | | take this volume to my classroom come fall. I think the |
| has placed a green jelly bean in his nose. Nish is in | | | | work will have appeal for the boys in the class and for |
| charge of the gross out Olympics and things may get | | | | many of the girls as well. I am considering separating |
| a lot worse before they get better. The Screech Owls | | | | the four books into individual ones so that four kids at |
| are now spending a week at summer hockey camp. | | | | a time can be reading rather than just one. The |
| A body hidden in the boathouse is definitely worse and | | | | compilation is ideal for the home library. A must have |
| the Screech Owls are caught up in trying to locate the | | | | for the active young reader. |
| murderer and solve the mystery. | | | | Enjoyed the read, happy to recommend. |
| Attack on the Tower of London opens with Travis | | | | |