The Robbersons and the League of Bandits

By Siri Kolu

When head bandit Big Hemmi’s Robbers’ Handbook secrets are revealed, a new page is turned in the history of highway robbery.

Maisie’s ”robber godmother”, the writer Kaija Robberson, is being married. Kaija and Hannes plan to hold their wedding in Lapland. The Robbersons agree to meet with the Tundra Doom robber gang while there, for they hold the very last heraldic syllable needed to open the Robbers’ Handbook.

But not everything goes according to plan: when the Doom syllable is finally in hand, the Spellcharmers arrive and muddle everything. Hele ends up a hostage, and Maisie unravels the code under extreme pressure. On top of everything, a crowd of hungry uninvited bandits arrives at the wedding…

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About the author

Siri Kolu (b. 1972) is a writer, dramatist, director and theatre instructor, which are among her many duties in the Finnish cultural field.She is a Finlandia Junior Prize winner and her works have been translated into 22 languages. Kolu has been awarded the Laivakello Prize by the Finnish Institute for Children’s Literature, and in the Netherlands, she won the Silver Slate Pencil. Me and the Robbersons received an honorary mention in British Book Trust’s ”In Other Words” competition in 2018. Kolu is a front-line author with a strong voice and she has published a broad range of works that range from humourous middle-grade stories to edgy YA cross-over fiction.