SuitabookResponsibility after wrongdoing
Miles faces consequences after involvement in car theft and later works on an old-car restoration project during community service.
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Shirlee Smith Matheson - Author
Expect a brisk story about cars, wrongdoing and trust. Its central appeal is the combination of hot-rod restoration and action, while Miles’s response to suspicion gives the plot a clear moral and personal dilemma.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceExpect a brisk story about cars, wrongdoing and trust. Its central appeal is the combination of hot-rod restoration and action, while Miles’s response to suspicion gives the plot a clear moral and personal dilemma.
Miles faces consequences after involvement in car theft and later works on an old-car restoration project during community service.
Miles’s friends Larry and Spider are described as involved in stolen cars, abandoning him after an accident and later taking the restored car.
Miles learns about hot rods and takes part in rebuilding an old car while completing community service.
Be prepared for criminal behaviour, a car accident, someone being knocked unconscious, police involvement, probation and community service.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: another book-specific source is still needed; the book’s treatment of its main themes is not yet firm enough.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.