The Ice Chips and the Stolen Cup
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He’d seen Shayna and Nolan at sign-up, and Blades, Swift, Mouth Guard, and Dynamo had been talking about it for weeks. But this was the first time he’d realized that Edge hadn’t mentioned it—not even on their late-night comm-call.
“You’re going, too, right?” Lucas asked, turning to Edge, who’d just made another basket. Edge loves hockey camp, too. Why hasn’t it come up?
“I’m, uh . . .” Edge started, but he wasn’t sure how to say it. The sky was blue, the grass was getting greener, and in fact, since their call last night, he hadn’t been thinking about hockey at all.
Lucas squinted. He could swear Edge’s face looked just as it had back in that fishing shack on the canal.
“Well, I’m not going to hockey camp,” Crunch suddenly blurted as he put his tablet in his bag and came to join the other kids on the court. “I’m going to science camp—well, crime scene investigation camp. While you’re practising your slapshot, I’ll be investigating murders.”
“Real murders?” asked Bond, shocked.
“Fake ones,” said Crunch, adjusting his glasses. “Mysteries. But I’ll be taking fingerprints and analyzing the scene . . . I’ll basically be a cop by the time we’re back at school in September.”
“And you, Edge?” Lucas asked, grabbing the ball and holding it as he looked at his best friend.
Edge took a breath, knocked the ball out of Lucas’s hands, and got it in the hoop by throwing it backwards over his shoulder. “I’m . . .” he started, hanging his head and scrunching up his nose. “I’m going to basketball camp this summer.”
“You’re WHAT?!” Lucas said, shocked, but he didn’t have time to say anything else.
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
Mouth Guard had buzzed him and was already shouting through his comm-band.
“Jared told on us! He told Coach Small and Quiet Dave about the cup!” Mouth Guard blurted. He was panicked and barely pausing between his words. “And your dad talked to Quiet Dave—about the machine he helped Crunch fix—”
“WHAT?!” Edge, Lucas, and Swift all shouted into Lucas’s comm-band.
“Dave knows we’ve been leaping—he put it all together,” said Mouth Guard.
“We’re at the basketball court. Come over here—fast!” said Edge, looking at Slapper out of the corner of his eye and hoping the Chips’ blabbermouth didn’t say more over the comm-band.
“No, you get to the rink—NOW!” Mouth Guard said, his voice almost shaking. “I’m almost there. That’s where they’re waiting for us. We’re in big, big trouble.”
“What’s that all about?” asked Slapper calmly, checking if his comm-band had also received a call.
But the others were already on their way to the arena.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Suzanne Sutherland for her amazing, Dominion Cup–worthy editing skills; to Maeve O’Regan in publicity for her enthusiasm; and to Senior Editorial Director Jennifer Lambert for her support. And thanks to the rest of the team at HarperCollins, who helped us hoist our Stanley Cup and carry it along: Janice Weaver, our careful copyeditor; Stephanie Conklin, our extraordinary production editor; and Lloyd Davis, our wonderful proofreader. Thank you also to Bruce Westwood and Meg Wheeler at Westwood Creative Artists for their representation, guidance, and friendship.
Thanks to the many friends and new acquaintances who lent us their stories (and read some of ours) so we could shape the characters of the Singh family and Nolan and Shayna Atlookan: Manmeet Singh and his wife, Harprit Kaur, for sharing some Sikh family stories; the hosts of Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition for their inventive calls; Sam Menard, Hallie Cotnam, Rumnik Chana (and her sons Hazoor and Nihal)—a few of our favourite hockey parents; Mandi Duhamel, the Canadian Regional Director, Youth Hockey, with the NHL; and Jeff Bignell, a former player on the Canadian Deaf Hockey Team. Miigwetch to Allison Norman, Leo Atlookan, and Kyle Jamieson, for their help with Shayna and Nolan.
Thank you also to Kim Smith, whose unbeatable illustrations should have a trophy case all their own.
And thank you to our families, who are the most precious prizes of all.
ROY MACGREGOR AND KERRY MACGREGOR
Many thanks to Roy MacGregor and Kerry MacGregor for creating an another magical story to illustrate; to Suzanne Sutherland, for her critical eye; and to Kelly Sonnack, my wonderful agent.
KIM SMITH
About the Authors and Illustrator
ROY MACGREGOR, who was 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 also published in French, Chinese, Swedish, Finnish, and Czech. It is the most successful hockey series in history—and is second only to Anne of Green Gables as a Canadian book series for young readers—and, for two seasons, 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 the issues and interests of today’s parents, have appeared in such publications as Parenting Times magazine.
KIM SMITH is an illustrator from Calgary. She is the New York Times–bestselling illustrator of over thirty picture books, including Boxitects, the Builder Brother series, and the Pop-Classics picture book adaptations of popular films, including Back to the Future, Home Alone, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Growing up, Kim’s favourite hockey player was Lanny McDonald. She still admires his iconic moustache to this day.
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Title: The Ice Chips and the stolen cup / Roy MacGregor and Kerry MacGregor; illustrated by Kim Smith.
Names: MacGregor, Roy, 1948- author. | MacGregor, Kerry, author. | Smith, Kim, 1986- illustrator.
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