Roy MacGregor Books in Order

Felix Batterinski has built his hockey career on intimidation, but his playing days are running out. A move from the NHL to a Finnish club gives the northern Ontario enforcer another chance, while exposing the anger and isolation behind his reputation.

Written with Ken Dryden, this exploration of Canadian hockey connects professional competition with the communities that sustain the game. Players' memories, local traditions and national rivalries reveal how hockey shapes family life and Canada's sense of itself.

MacGregor follows the NHL through its turbulent 1992–93 season, tracking emerging European stars, established players' setbacks and the Ottawa Senators' difficult return. The chronicle moves between on-ice competition and the controversies surrounding a rapidly changing league.

Following students and teachers through a year at a diverse Canadian high school, this account examines education through everyday classroom experiences. Academic struggles, family pressures, and teachers’ choices reveal how policy debates can overlook the people schools serve.

The Screech Owls travel to Lake Placid for an international peewee hockey tournament. When damaged equipment and an attack on Travis threaten their chances, the teammates must investigate the danger while preparing to face their opponents on the ice.

Through famous hockey families and less celebrated players, MacGregor examines the bonds between fathers and sons. Stories of ambition, coaching, disappointment and shared enthusiasm show how the game can bring generations together while also placing them under strain.

A Toronto tournament gives the Screech Owls a chance to visit the Hockey Hall of Fame. When Travis overhears a plan to steal the Stanley Cup, the team's sightseeing trip becomes an investigation that competes with their hockey commitments.

At a goodwill tournament in Stockholm, the Screech Owls meet a gifted young Russian player whose future makes him a target for kidnappers. An attempt to evade his guards places the visiting teammates in the path of a dangerous ransom scheme.

A summer hockey camp brings Travis and his friends to lakeside cottages, tough training and an intimidating former NHL player. The discovery of a body in a boathouse turns their holiday into a murder investigation with a killer still nearby.

Invited to a First Nations peewee tournament at James Bay, the Screech Owls experience northern hospitality and unfamiliar winter travel. Their adventure becomes a survival challenge when isolation, a fierce storm and fears of the Trickster threaten their safety.

Drawing on life with his four children, MacGregor reflects on the pleasures and frustrations of parenting. Early sports practices, changing fashions and adolescent independence become occasions to consider how parents adjust as their children gradually grow away from them.

The Screech Owls head to Florida for hockey, camping and a visit to Disney World. Nish's schemes promise extra excitement, but something he sees reveals a terrorist plot that forces the teammates to confront dangers far beyond their tournament.

A tournament in Nagano lets the Screech Owls play in an Olympic arena and explore Japan. Their excitement gives way to alarm when the mayor is murdered at the opening banquet, leaving the team caught in an unfamiliar mystery.

At Quebec City's celebrated peewee tournament, Travis writes a diary for a local newspaper. A misunderstanding turns spectators against the Screech Owls, and an anonymous campaign of intimidation threatens their chance to compete for the championship.

An ice-covered weekend transforms Tamarack into a playground for the Screech Owls. When a teammate is badly injured by a drunk driver who escapes, Travis and his friends must support one another while trying to identify the person responsible.

MacGregor recounts his father Duncan's life in Ontario's Algonquin Park, where logging, fishing and raising a family shaped an unconventional existence. The memoir explores their complicated relationship alongside the skills, hardships and pleasures of living in the bush.

While visiting Drumheller, the Screech Owls explore the hills of Canada's dinosaur country. Nish claims he has encountered a living Albertosaurus, and his skeptical teammates set out on a mountain-bike ride that produces a startling mystery of their own.

A summer tournament in Ottawa brings the Screech Owls sightseeing, rafting and stories of regional ghosts. When one haunting seems disturbingly real, Travis and his friends question its connection to a young stranger who offers to coach their team.

The Screech Owls take up lacrosse as summer approaches, but their new coach draws Travis's attention to a local boy's disappearance. Filming Nish's planned horror movie leads the teammates toward a frightening secret connected to River Road.

In New York for a peewee tournament, the Screech Owls prepare to celebrate New Year's Eve in Times Square. Nish plans an outrageous televised prank, but the team discovers a terrorist threat that could turn the festivities into a disaster.

A Vancouver trip promises the Screech Owls a three-on-three hockey tournament and a whale-watching excursion. Finding a dead dolphin and a human body at sea changes everything, especially when Nish recognizes the man floating in the water.

The Screech Owls visit Sydney for exhibition hockey and a junior competition in Olympic facilities. An aquarium visit sparks Sarah's interest in an endangered seahorse, leading the teammates on a field trip that becomes a dangerous adventure.

A Washington tournament introduces the Screech Owls to a young player who is also the president's son. Amid tight security and Nish's latest outrageous plan, a day out with their new friend brings the team into an assassination plot.

At the 2002 Winter Olympics, Canadian icemaker Trent Evans secretly places a loonie beneath centre ice. MacGregor follows the coin's story alongside Canada's men's and women's hockey teams, exploring the place of luck and superstition in their campaigns.

An American woman arrives in an Ontario town seeking the mother she never knew. Her search through records and memories uncovers the intertwined lives of Jenny, a local boy named Russell and the painter Tom, linking family history with impending tragedy.

Combining family memories with Canadian history, MacGregor explores the appeal of wilderness retreats and cottage country. He considers settlers' dreams, utopian communities and modern escapes, asking how the desire for refuge changes the landscapes people cherish.

This commemorative volume gathers photographs, eulogies, tributes and political assessments following Pierre Elliott Trudeau's death. Introduced by MacGregor, it considers the former prime minister's life, public influence and the varied responses of those who knew or observed him.

A canoe trip takes the Screech Owls and Rachel Highboy into Algonquin Park as a hockey star's plane disappears nearby. Separated from their friends, some teammates face mysterious visitors and disturbing discoveries while struggling to survive in the woods.

The Screech Owls arrive in Salt Lake City for a peewee competition on Olympic ice. While Nish organizes his own gross-out contests, the teammates discover something alarming in tunnels beneath the surrounding hills, turning their tournament trip into another investigation.

Winning a contest sends the Screech Owls to London for in-line hockey at Wembley Stadium. Visits to the Tower of London and Madame Tussaud's become entangled with a dangerous plot, bringing unexpected fear to their British sightseeing adventure.

Ten years after their Junior Olympics victory, the former Screech Owls return to Tamarack for an arena-opening game honoring Sarah. A controversial casino development divides the town, and an attack on Mr. Dillinger draws the reunited friends into another mystery.

Bump longs to join his family's annual Christmas hockey game, but he has always been too small. When his grandfather finally welcomes him onto the ice, the boy hopes to prove himself and earn a place in a cherished tradition.

Arranged as a cottage journal, this collection follows a year of lakeside pleasures and occasional frustrations. MacGregor combines earlier columns with new material, reflecting on seasonal rituals, family experiences and the enduring attraction of time spent away from city life.

MacGregor explores Canadian identity through encounters across the country and reflections on its history, culture and landscape. Literature, sport, weather and everyday experiences contribute to a portrait of how Canadians understand themselves and the place they share.

In new and previously published essays, MacGregor reflects on the dogs that have shared his life. Experiences of puppyhood, companionship, misbehavior and loss reveal the practical demands and emotional bonds that develop between people and their pets.

More than five hundred teams converge on Ottawa for an enormous minor-league hockey tournament. As the Screech Owls join the competition, Nish befriends a daring mascot, beginning a frightening adventure amid the excitement of the international gathering.

Before their peewee adventures, Travis, Sarah, Nish and their classmates begin skating and encounter their first mystery in kindergarten. This prequel traces the team's beginnings and the events that change Nish's standing among his fellow children.

A hockey tournament takes the Screech Owls to Pangnirtung, where Arctic daylight and local hospitality offer unfamiliar experiences. Meeting a promising young player becomes part of a larger adventure involving international intrigue, global warming and endangered wildlife.

Returning to the mystery of painter Tom Thomson, MacGregor examines his relationships, disputed death and enduring reputation. Memories of Winnie Trainor, the woman who loved him, anchor an investigation into the evidence and legends surrounding a Canadian cultural figure.

This collection revisits decades of MacGregor's hockey journalism, from celebrated players' triumphs to personal struggles away from the rink. Profiles and arguments examine the sport's changing culture, including Gretzky's influence, television coverage and the expanding role of goaltending.

The Screech Owls travel to San Antonio for a peewee hockey tournament and a visit to the Alamo. Their sightseeing becomes an investigation when they discover a plot to destroy the historic mission.

A concussion keeps Travis out of the Screech Owls' outdoor tournament in Pittsburgh. Confined to his hotel, he struggles to separate dreams from memories while a possible plot against the Stanley Cup takes shape.

The Screech Owls arrive in Boston for a tournament, but Nish's decision to quit hockey worries Sarah. Meanwhile, protests demanding freedom for aquarium penguins draw the team toward a threat involving other sea creatures.

Nine-year-old Gabe wants to wear her hockey hero's number, twenty-two, but her new team gives her nine. As she considers abandoning hockey, her grandmother shares memories that suggest her unwanted number has its own history.

A Russian billionaire invites the Screech Owls to visit his country for a tournament. When Sarah is kidnapped and a huge ransom demanded, Travis and his teammates must confront a danger far beyond the rink.

MacGregor explores the canoe's place in Canadian life through personal journeys, family memories, photographs and history. His account follows explorers and voyageurs while connecting waterways, wilderness travel and the continuing appeal of paddling across the country.

The Screech Owls enter a Detroit hockey competition filmed for a reality television show. Lavish treatment initially impresses them, but unequal conditions and producers' efforts to manufacture conflict complicate the team's experience on and off camera.

Travelling sixteen Canadian rivers, MacGregor examines how waterways shaped the country's settlement, commerce and sense of identity. Historical accounts and encounters along the banks explore their continuing economic, cultural and spiritual importance to the people living nearby.

The Riverton Ice Chips need practice to face rivals with superior equipment and facilities. A journey through their magical rink carries them to Halifax, where a hurricane and an encounter with a young hockey player await.

Lucas Finnigan relies on secondhand equipment, and his team's aging rink faces a problem that threatens their season. An unexpected discovery turns the ice into a route through time, opening encounters with hockey heroes as children.

Swift refuses an invitation to join an all-girls team because it would mean playing alongside a rival. A time-travelling trip to Calgary brings the Ice Chips into contact with another young player facing questions about teammates.

After a humiliating first day at school, six-year-old Clarence stops attending and keeps a secret for decades. This picture book follows the long life of a man whose inability to read remains hidden from others.

Edge persuades his teammates to take another trip through their magical rink, but the wrong hockey hero arrives in the present. A trophy left behind creates an urgent problem: returning it before the past is altered.

The Ice Chips' latest journey takes them to British Columbia, where they encounter a future hockey hero as a young player. Their adventure involves a special puck and the challenge of escaping from Anahim Peak.