Pirate's Island. Illustrated by Douglas Hall

"A overweight 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."@en
"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."@en
"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."