Simple text and illustrations describe the story of Pocahontas and how she helped maintain peace between the English colonists at Jamestown and the Native Americans.
In a small, Virginia town, sixth-grader Jessie Lou Ferguson has a crush on the hugely popular Conrad Parker Smith, and when he suddenly develops a medical problem and the teacher asks Jessie Lou to help him, they become friends, to her surprise.
Follows the life of the son of John Rolfe and Pocohontas, from his youth in Scotland and England through his return to Virginia to his reunion with his Algonquin relatives.