Trouble at the Top of the World

Global warming, conservation, the exotic Arctic topics that kids are interested in and can get excited about make this latest addition to the bestselling series a winner. The Screech Owls have been invited to the Inuit community of Pangnirtung, high in the Arctic Circle in Canada's newest province, Nunavut. For the Owls, it is a magical world, filled with twenty-four-hour daylight, golf among the icebergs, feasts of raw meat, dogsleds, and the magnificent polar bear. They have come to play in a four-team tournament that features Zeke Zebedee, the greatest hockey talent ever to come out of the Arctic. But they also land smack in the middle of a story of international intrigue, global warming and threatened species.

Roy MacGregor is the author of several classics in the literature of hockey, including Home Game (written with Ken Dryden) and The Home Team were both national bestsellers. He has also written the game’s best-known novel, The Last Season.

His other books include Road Games, The Seven A.M. Practice, A Life in the Bush, Canoe Lake, The Dog and I, and Canadians.

Roy MacGregor is a columnist for the Globe and Mail. He and his wife, Ellen, live in Kanata, Ontario, with their four children.