Pocahontas: An American Princess (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)

Chief Powhatan had a dozen wives and children, but his daughter Pocahontas was his favorite. Readers will thrill to the carefully researched story of how Pocahontas saved Captain John Smith of Jamestown from execution by her tribe and became an early American heroine. With evocative, color illustrations by Shelly Hehenberger.