Books in Down Under Kids series

A reluctant street kid from a broken family, Pete unwittingly becomes involved in a serious crime with two teenage boys she thought were her friends. When those boys abandon her to take the responsibility for the crime she is arrested and thrust into the care of the Department Of Children's Services. With a history of running away from her mother’s addictions and abusive partner, Pete is threatened with juvenile detention until she is given a reprieve.With the intervention of her social worker, she is eventually allowed to live with her father instead but faces life in a new apartment and starting at another new school.Just as she appears to settle down in her new life, her old life suddenly threatens to thrust her back into the ugly world of organised crime. It’s then when she desperately needs her new friends of the Dingo Patrol along with a special boy and his stories.With the help of the Dingos, Pete must deal with demands from rivalling gangsters that threatens to escalate into gang war. If she is to survive to live a normal life again then Pete and the Dingoes must use all their ingenuity to outsmart those who think they can live above the Law.