Book Description
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 get to go on the trip of a lifetime, they also learn the differences between European and North American hockey and make some great new friends – including the thirteen-year-old Russian phenomenon Slava Shadrin, who is already being called “the next Pavel Bure.”
The young hockey star even travels with his own bodyguards. The police, it turns out, suspect the “Russian Mob” is planning to kidnap Slava and hold him for ransom!
And sure enough, when Slava and his new Screech Owls friends give his bodyguards the slip, the Mob moves in. But the villains end up with more captives than they intended…
Kidnapped in Sweden is the fifth book in the Screech Owls Series by Roy MacGregor, joining Mystery at Lake Placid, The Night They Stole the Stanley Cup, The Screech Owls'’Northern Adventure, and Murder at Hockey Camp.
From the Back Cover
“For kids who love hockey…Roy MacGregor’s series of books makes perfect reading.”
–Ottawa Citizen
Kidnapped in Sweden (Screetch Owls Series #5) FROM THE PUBLISHER
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 get to go on the trip of a lifetime, they also learn the differences between European and North American hockey and make some great new friends – including the thirteen-year-old Russian phenomenon Slava Shadrin, who is already being called “the next Pavel Bure.”
The young hockey star even travels with his own bodyguards. The police, it turns out, suspect the “Russian Mob” is planning to kidnap Slava and hold him for ransom!
And sure enough, when Slava and his new Screech Owls friends give his bodyguards the slip, the Mob moves in. But the villains end up with more captives than they intended…
Kidnapped in Sweden is the fifth book in the Screech Owls Series by Roy MacGregor, joining Mystery at Lake Placid, The Night They Stole the Stanley Cup, The Screech Owls'’Northern Adventure, and Murder at Hockey Camp.
FROM THE CRITICS
Children's Literature - Catherine Campbell Wright
Young hockey fans will delight in this fifth book of the "Screech Owls" series. Join co-captains Travis and Nish as they lead the team to Sweden to participate in the first-ever International Goodwill Pee Wee Tournament. The Owls face teams from Norway, Finland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Russia, and Sweden. Under the guidance of their coach, Muck Munro, the Screech Owls experience the trip of a lifetime. They train under Borje Salming, the Swedish hockey legend, who teaches them how Swedish youth learn the game. They play with Russian hockey phenomenon, Slava Shadrin, who is so good he has bodyguards! When one of the bodyguards turns out to be a kidnapper, the Screech Owls need to rely on each other to get out of a treacherous situation. MacGregor's multicultural characters and his use of girls as star athletes earn him extra praise. Other titles in the series are: Mystery at Lake Placid, The Night They Stole the Stanley Cup, The Screech Owls' Northern Adventure, and Murder at Hockey Camp.
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