Pirate's Island

By John Rowe Townsend

Subjects: Children's stories, Fiction

Description: A tubby, tormented twelve-year-old lets a highly imaginative skinny little eight-year-old girl talk him into friendship and a search for pirates' treasure on a little island in the river that borders their slum; when the object of their search becomes the real treasure that has been stolen from an old man, their efforts bring solutions to some of their own problems.