Murder at Hockey Camp

Screech Owls #4

by Roy MacGregor, Gregory C. Banning (Illustrator)

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 – the Owls’ former captain – with her new team, the Junior Aeros. It promises to be a wonderful seven days of sun, sand, and skating. Nish is even planning the World’s Biggest Skinny Dip!

But it’s not all fun and sun. The owner of the camp, Buddy O’Reilly, is a tyrant – a surly former NHLer, even meaner now than he was as a player. Soon coach Muck Munro, who never believed in summer hockey in the first place, has to warn the bully to stay away from the Screech Owls.

Next morning dawns bright and warm – but not warm enough to stir the cold body hidden in the boathouse! Now a killer is at large, and the Screech Owls are right in the middle of a real-life murder case.

Murder at Hockey Camp is the fourth book in the Screech Owls Series.

Check out the Screech Owls’ website at www.screechowls.com

Genres: Mystery, Canada, Childrens, Sports, Hockey

128 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 15, 1997

About the author

Roy MacGregor is a Canadian author of fiction and non-fiction.

Reviews

[Kaitlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a good book! i would recommend it if you have a good patience with reading, and if you like horror books! Over all it was a great book! There were lots of funny parts, it also had quite a few plot twists!

[Linn Timonen · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was good, but it feels like everything was to rushed. It would’ve been better if it had atleast consist of 300 pages. Overall the end was my favorite part when the girls took revenge for Sarah.

[Margaret · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yay! Sarah is back! And she is so amazing, I love everything about her. She is such a good hockey player and a great leader and she is such a good sport.
Wish she was in all the books

[J.B. Mathias · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably the best one so far, little bit of hockey, little bit of mystery little bit of camp hijinks.

[April · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are great chapter books for kids who like Hockey!! What fun books with mysteries that are appropriate for kids 9 and up!

Each book has a an exciting hockey game and a mystery to solve. The characters in the books are very relateable for kids of this age and engaging. I love that their are both boys and girls on the team and they all contribute!

The stories also contain lessons on teamwork, sportsmanship and friendship! Terrific lessons for all kids!

There are a few times when I thought the content was a bit off for the age, but then when you compare it to modern video games, movies and tv shows, it was mild. Kids today are ages ahead of their past counterparts and these books reflect that.

Hockey fans will find a lot to love here. The play-by-play is really fun to read even for non-sporties like myself.

Cover Art - Eye catching and easy to tell the theme of the books.

Disclosure: This ebook was provided to me free of charge through NetGalley for the sole purpose of an honest review. All thoughts, comments, and ratings are my own.

[Jessie · Rating 5 out of 5]

In the fourth book in the series the team goes away to a summer hockey camp with their former captain, Sarah Cuthbertson's, new team. But the camp owner, Buddy O'Reilly is not making the week any fun. He's mean and a bully. The Screech Owls coach, Muck Munro, has an argument with Buddy and the next morning a body is found in the boathouse. Who committed the crime and why?

[Teebz Hbic · Rating 5 out of 5]

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