Ten-year-old Ben Franklin would rather be doing experiments than working in his father's candle shop, so to pass the time, he creates a kite with the hopes that he can cross the lake without swimming a single stroke.

Relates an incident from the childhood of King, when his friend's father said they could no longer play together.

Learn about an incident in the childhood of this courageous woman.

Tells the story of young Thomas Jefferson observing a Native American tribe paying their respects to a burial mound near his house.