The third title in the beloved and bestselling Ice Chips
series by acclaimed authors Roy MacGregor and Kerry MacGregor and illustrator
Kim Smith, featuring a vibrant and diverse cast of characters and inspiring
hockey greats
Would you play on a team with
your worst enemy?
Lucas
Finnigan and his friends on the Riverton Ice Chips know a thing or two about
time travel—at least, they’ve been learning. The magical flooding of their
beloved hometown rink has already whisked Lucas, Edge and Swift into the past
to meet Gordie Howe and Sidney Crosby when those hockey greats were just kids.
That’s how they learned about the roots of the game, and about how far practice
can take them . . . but this time?
When
goalie Swift is invited onto an all-girls hockey team but refuses to join
forces with Chips’ rival Beatrice Blitz, Lucas decides that their only
option—even as Swift’s sister, Sadie, guesses their secret—is to leap through
time once again.
Pretty
soon Lucas, Swift and Sadie find themselves smack in the middle of the Calgary
Olympics. A determined young hockey player known as Chicken is in desperate
need of new teammates to compete in an Olympic-style match. But do the Chips
have what it takes to help Chicken’s team get back in the game and win? And
will winning be enough to change Swift’s mind about the new team back home?
With a clever lesson from their new friend—who’ll go on to become one of
Canada’s best-loved Olympic hockey players—anything is possible.
ROY MACGREGOR, the media inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2012, has been described by the Washington Post as “the closest thing there is to a poet laureate of Canadian hockey.” He is the author of the internationally successful Screech Owls hockey mystery series for young readers, which has sold more than two million copies and is published in French, Chinese, Swedish, Finnish, and Czech. The most successful hockey series in history—second only to Anne of Green Gables as a book series for young readers—it was a live-action hit on YTV. MacGregor has twice won the ACTRA Award for best television screenwriting.
KERRY MACGREGOR is co-author of the latest work in the Screech Owls series. She has worked in news and current affairs at the CBC, and as a journalist with the Toronto Star, the Ottawa Citizen, and many other publications. Her columns on parenting, written with a unique, modern perspective on today’s issues and interests, have appeared in such publications as Parenting Times Magazine.
KIM SMITH is the New York Times–bestselling illustrator of several picture books, including Boxitects, Baker Makers, Builder Brothers: Big Plans and the Ice Chips chapter-book series. She lives in Calgary.
