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Books in Mitchell Brothers series

  • Season of Surprises

    Brian McFarlane

    Paperback (Key Porter Books, March 28, 2008)
    Max and Marty Mitchell must decide whether or not to befriend a new team-member in the latest chapter of this hockey-themed series. Clarence could not be more different: he's from England, and is a figure-skater, not a hockey-player. But as time goes by, Max and Marty realize that Clarence's particular talents could come in handy on the Indian River team.
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  • Mitchell Brothers: Coaching the River Rats

    Brian McFarlane

    Paperback (Key Porter Books, March 28, 2008)
    Max and Marty usually have trouble with their own hockey team but this time around it's a different game altogether when the two brothers take on a new team. When a minor-league hockey club in their hometown recruits them to coach, they have to face demands both on the ice and in the stands.
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  • On the Hockey Highway: The Mitchell Brothers Series

    Brian McFarlane

    Paperback (Key Porter Books, April 27, 2007)
    Adjusting to a new town and having to make new friends isn't easy. Luckily for Max and Marty Mitchell — newcomers to the mill town of Indian River — it's almost hockey season. They can't wait to join the new team! Until they find out that Indian River is dropping sponsorship of hockey . Max and Marty decide that if the powerful mill owner won't sponsor a club, they will create their own team...but it won't be easy.
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  • Trouble at Tumbling Waters

    Brian McFarlane

    Paperback (Key Porter Books, July 18, 2007)
    It is a special honor when Max and Marty Mitchell are invited as guests to the annual tribal gathering and lacrosse tournament in the village of Tumbling Waters! But the boys discover it is not all fun and games. In a friendly athletic contest Max and Marty slip from a rope bridge when the rope snaps. But was it an accident? Max, Marty and their friend, Sammy Red Fox, are on the trail of another mystery!
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  • The Hockey Book

    Brian McFarlane

    Paperback (Key Porter Books, March 11, 2008)
    It's 1936, and Max and Marty's twin cousins Bert and Barry Kapuskasing are players in an era when scouts moved from rink to rink seeking fresh talent for NHL teams. The twins prove to be a perfect fit for the rebuilding Toronto Maple Leafs, but, tempted by big city nightlife and some unsavory characters, one of the twins disappears. Now it's up to Max and Marty to find him and to discover why he vanished. The Kapuskasing Kids captures all the thrills of life on and off the ice in those heady days.
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  • The Hockey Book

    Brian McFarlane

    Paperback (Key Porter Books, Feb. 28, 2008)
    Max and Marty Mitchell love nothing more than a good, sweaty game of hockey. But off the ice Max is secretly writing a book featuring a farm boy who makes it to the big leagues. Max's book is set in the 1930s during the opening of Maple Leaf Gardens, and The Hockey Book takes readers into the rough-and-tumble early days of the game. Brian McFarlane blends a detailed knowledge of the sport with an exciting time-travel storyline in this fun entry in the popular series.
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  • The Hockey Book

    Brian McFarlane

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  • Fire in the North

    Brian McFarlane

    Paperback (Key Porter Books, June 18, 2007)
    For brothers Max and Marty there isn't a lot to do in the summer but sit in the shade and wait for hockey season — unti a fire breaks out in town and leaves hundreds of families homeless. Businesses are ruined. Folks are hopping mad. When Max is accused of starting the fire, Marty has to help his brother find the real villain. Marty knows Max is innocent . Too bad Max isn't as sure...
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  • The Stanley Cup Dream: Book Six in the Mitchell Brothers Series

    Brian McFarlane

    Paperback (Key Porter Books, July 28, 2007)
    Max and Marty find themselves back in time, in the year 1905, rubbing shoulders with legendary One-Eyed Frank McGee and the famous Stanley Cup champions, the Ottawa Silver Seven. The brothers learn about the history of hockey and the origins of the Stanley Cup. They witness their new buddy McGee score a record number of goals in a Cup game. Of course, they can't resist getting into the action themselves, in the process astounding the players by introducing some fancy modern moves and techniques, including the "deke" and the "wrap-around"!
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  • The Baseball Thief: Book Eight in the Mitchell Brothers Series

    Brian McFarlane

    Paperback (Key Porter Books, June 19, 2007)
    Max and Marty Mitchell befriend the star pitcher and catcher of the team — Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson — two of the greatest players in baseball history. The local sheriff and others in Indian River, however, are slow to welcome the stranded players. When Satchel and Josh are wrongly accused of theft and thrown in jail, it's up to the Mitchells and their friends to follow a dangerous path in their efforts to track down the real culprits.
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  • Daredevil Over Niagara: Book Seven in the Mitchell Brothers Series

    Brian McFarlane

    Paperback (Key Porter Books, June 19, 2007)
    In the summer of 1860, Willie Hunt, a young Canadian aerialist known as The Great Farini, engaged in a number of breathtaking tightrope duels with his French archrival Blondin. In Daredevil Over Niagara, amateur ropewalker Max Mitchell and his brother Marty, along with their friend Trudy Reeves, take a trip down the River of Time to Niagara Falls, where they become friends with Farini and witness his breathtaking triumphs — and his final death-defying stunt, one so perilous it leads Farini to the very brink of the American Falls!
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  • Wizard the Wonder Horse: The Mitchell Brothers Series

    Brian McFarlane

    Paperback (Key Porter Books, June 18, 2007)
    Max and Marty Mitchell can't believe their luck: their parents have bought a farm near Indian Rier and it comes with a real horse! With a name like Wizard they figure he has to be fast but he looks too slow to catch his own shadow. Luckily the boys' new friend Trudy — a gifted horse trainer — knows there is a lot more to Wizard than meets the eye. And she thinks Max is the perfect rider to take Wizard to the famous Hambletonian. Does Max have what it takes to win?
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