Title: Guilt Trip (Urban Underground)
Description: Ernesto goes to look at used cars. He wants to give up his vovol because it isn’t cool. He buys another car and donates his old one to Yvette’s needy family. During the car search, Ernesto and his friends meet a veteran who is trying to get his money back from the used junker he purchased. Paul Morales, Ernesto’s tough friend, helps. Unfortunately, suspicion falls on the group when the used car lot’s offices are burned to the ground. Money and computer equipment has gone missing. The police question everybody about the theft and destruction. Then Jorge Aguilar, a track team teammate, is arrested. The evidence is hard to deny. Ernesto and his pals are unconvinced that Jorge has it in him. When they meet Aguilar’s older sister, Dawn, they are red flags everywhere. She has a leach of a boyfriend who just so happened to buy a hunk of junk from the same lot. Does Dawn know that her brother was set up and is staying quiet? Ernesto and Paul lay a guilt trip on her.
Subjects: Children's fiction, Friendship, fiction, Crime, fiction