Berry, Julie. Burglars and Bluestockings. Wishes and Wellingtons Series; bk. 3. Sourcebooks, 03/2023. 368pp. Fiction. GRADES 5 – 7 $16.99. 978-1-7282-3152-5. ADDITIONAL
Maeve Merritt’s misadventures with magical objects take her and chums, Alice and Tommy, to Oxford, where the campus is torn apart by the contentious election to allow women to receive degrees. The injustice deepens when an undergraduate friend, and cricket hero, is wrongly accused of academic misconduct and may lose her scholarship. As always, central to the series is the constant threat of the theft of the trio’s acerbic genie, Mermeros. Multiple plotlines slightly encumber the satisfying conclusion to this most British adventure trilogy. Review based on an ARC.
Melissa McAvoy—Retired