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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.

A reluctant street kid from a broken family Pete unwittingly becomes involved in the theft of a car with two teenage boys she thought were her friends. After the boys abandoned her to take the responsibility for the theft of the car she is arrested by the Police, which thrusts her into the Department Of Children's Services and the threat of another Foster Home. Making matters worse the police receive a report that there was something small but of great value in the stolen car and when it isn't found on Pete her DoCS caseworker is eventually allowed to live under a strict curfew with her father in a large apartment building where local kids get her interested in joining Scouts.Living in the same apartment block with his sister and elderly grandmother, Richard is a dreamer. He also a member of the local Scout Group, writes stories and slowly becomes a close friend to Pete. When Pete's mother intervenes and takes Court action to have her daughter returned to the very life that Pete was escaping from every thing begins to fall apart in Pete's young life again. With the help of the scouts in the Dingo Patrol, Pete is determined that she will not return to her mother and sets out convince the authorities that she needs to stay with her father.Just as things begin to fall into place the teenage boys re-appear in her life convinced that Pete was able to steal the object from the car, which is now the subject of a fight between several criminal gangs.Things go from bad to worse and Pete needs the support of Richard and the Dingo Patrol to help her sort her life out and return to some normality.