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Screech Owls Books in Order

Screech Owls by Roy MacGregor contains 29 books, published between 1995 and 2015. The first book is Mystery at Lake Placid (1995) and the newest is Reality Check in Detroit (2015). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
29
Published
1995–2015
Pages on record
3,463 in 24 of 29 books
Reading time
58–87 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,463 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 24 of 29 titles with a page count on record.

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The Screech Owls are a youth hockey team whose road trips turn into mysteries, in Roy MacGregor's series for young readers. Mystery at Lake Placid and The Night They Stole the Stanley Cup, both 1995, open the run, and later books take the team to Sweden, Florida, Quebec City, Nagano and Detroit. Hockey, kidnapping and detective stories run through the listed subjects. 29 titles are catalogued to Reality Check in Detroit (2015), at a median of 128 pages.

How many Screech Owls books are there?

Screech Owls has 29 books, released between 1995 and 2015.

Screech Owls Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 29 Screech Owls books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of The Night They Stole the Stanley Cup by Roy MacGregor, book 2 of the Screech Owls series (1995)
  2. Cover of The Screech Owls' Northern Adventure by Roy MacGregor, book 3 of the Screech Owls series (1996)
  3. Cover of Murder at Hockey Camp by Roy MacGregor, book 4 of the Screech Owls series (1996)
  4. Cover of Kidnapped in Sweden by Roy MacGregor, book 5 of the Screech Owls series (1996)
  5. Cover of Terror in Florida by Roy MacGregor, book 6 of the Screech Owls series (1997)
  6. Cover of The Quebec City Crisis by Roy MacGregor, book 7 of the Screech Owls series (1998)
  7. Cover of The Screech Owls' Home Loss by Roy MacGregor, book 8 of the Screech Owls series (1998)
  8. Cover of Nightmare in Nagano by Roy MacGregor, book 9 of the Screech Owls series (1998)
  9. Cover of Danger in Dinosaur Valley by Roy MacGregor, book 10 of the Screech Owls series (1999)
  10. Cover of The Ghost of the Stanley Cup by Roy MacGregor, book 11 of the Screech Owls series (1999)
  11. Cover of The West Coast Murders by Roy MacGregor, book 12 of the Screech Owls series (2000)
  12. Cover of Horror on River Road by Roy MacGregor, book 14 of the Screech Owls series (2000)
  13. Cover of Death Down Under by Roy MacGregor, book 15 of the Screech Owls series (2001)
  14. Cover of The Screech Owls Scrapbook by Roy MacGregor, book 16 of the Screech Owls series (2001)
  15. Cover of Power Play In Washington by Roy MacGregor, book 17 of the Screech Owls series (2001)
  16. Cover of The Secret of the Deep Woods by Roy MacGregor, book 18 of the Screech Owls series (2002)
  17. Cover of Murder at the Winter Games by Roy MacGregor, book 19 of the Screech Owls series (2003)
  18. Cover of Attack on the Tower of London by Roy MacGregor, book 20 of the Screech Owls series (2004)
  19. Cover of The Screech Owls' Reunion by Roy MacGregor, book 21 of the Screech Owls series (2004)
  20. Cover of The Kindergarten Caper by Roy MacGregor, book 22 of the Screech Owls series (2008)
  21. Cover of Peril at the World's Biggest Hockey Tournament by Roy MacGregor, book 23 of the Screech Owls series (2008)
  22. Cover of Trouble at the Top of the World by Roy MacGregor, book 24 of the Screech Owls series (2009)
  23. Cover of Face-Off at the Alamo by Roy MacGregor, book 25 of the Screech Owls series (2013)
  24. Cover of Panic in Pittsburgh by Roy MacGregor, book 26 of the Screech Owls series (2013)
  1. 1
    Mystery at Lake Placid1995 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995256
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  2. 2
    The Night They Stole the Stanley Cup1995 · 155 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1995155
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  3. 3
    The Screech Owls' Northern Adventure1996 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996128
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  4. 4
    Murder at Hockey Camp1996 · 110 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996110
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  5. 5
    Kidnapped in Sweden1996 · 110 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1996110
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  6. 6
    Terror in Florida1997 · 115 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1997115
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  7. 7
    The Quebec City Crisis1998 · 120 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998120
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  8. 8
    The Screech Owls' Home Loss1998 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998128
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  9. 9
    Nightmare in Nagano1998 · 120 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1998120
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  10. 10
    Danger in Dinosaur Valley1999 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999128
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  11. 11
    The Ghost of the Stanley Cup1999 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1999176
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  12. 12
    The West Coast Murders2000 · 124 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000124
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  13. 13
    Sudden Death in New York City2000 · 165 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000165
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  14. 14
    Horror on River Road2000 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000128
    Buy at Amazon USAmazon UK
  15. 15
    Death Down Under2001 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001128
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  16. 16
    The Screech Owls Scrapbook2001 · confirmed 1/4
    2001–
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  17. 17
    Power Play In Washington2001 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001128
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  18. 18
    The Secret of the Deep Woods2002 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002128
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  19. 19
    Murder at the Winter Games2003 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2003128
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  20. 20
    Attack on the Tower of London2004 · 128 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004128
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  21. 21
    The Screech Owls' Reunion2004 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004144
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  22. 22
    The Kindergarten Caper2008 · confirmed 1/4
    2008–
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  23. 23
    Peril at the World's Biggest Hockey Tournament2008 · confirmed 1/4
    2008–
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  24. 24
    Trouble at the Top of the World2009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
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  25. 25
    Face-Off at the Alamo2013 · confirmed 1/4
    2013–
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  26. 26
    Panic in Pittsburgh2013 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013176
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  27. 27
    The Mystery of the Russian Ransom2014 · 156 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014156
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  28. 28
    The Boston Breakout2014 · 176 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014176
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  29. 29
    Reality Check in Detroit2015 · 208 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015208
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Is there a chronological order for Screech Owls?

No separate chronological order is on record for Screech Owls, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Screech Owls books in order?

You should read the Screech Owls books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Screech Owls book also stands alone.

Where to start with Screech Owls

Start with Mystery at Lake Placid (1995), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Screech Owls book?

Reality Check in Detroit (2015) is the newest Screech Owls book released so far.

Is there a new Screech Owls book coming?

No next Screech Owls book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Screech Owls at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Screech Owls title on record dates from 2015, 11 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Screech Owls books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
3,463 pages across the 24 of 29 books with a recorded length, a median of 128 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Screech Owls books, 13 of 29, were published in the 2000s.

What the Screech Owls books are about

All 29 Screech Owls books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 19 of 29. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Roy MacGregor

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.