Kidnapped in Sweden (Screech Owls, #5)

By Roy MacGregor

Book Overview

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 .

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077105615X
• ISBN13: 9780771056154
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.4" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Very Great Book

The Screech Owls are going to Sweden to face off in a International Peewee Hockey Tounrmanet. The thirteend russian phenomenon Slava Shadrin is there and he has his own bodygaurds. The police suspect the Russian Mob to kidnap him and hold him for ransom. When Slave and his new friends the Screech Owls give the bodygaurds the slip the Mob moves in. But they end up with more captives then they bargained for.