Young Scholars Digitized Books

From the amusements of Coney Island to the sewers beneath our feet, explore the wide range of books written by the students of the Young Scholars program. These books are the result of students in 4th-12th grade researching archival sources; learning from acclaimed scholars, authors, and public figures; and collaborating to compose original volumes. The books here represent six years of the program. You're sure to learn something from this new generation of researchers!

Alphabetized by subject

Soaring Through Brooklyn 

Subject: Aviation & Floyd Bennett Field 

School: P.S. 312

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Barren Island: New York's Smelliest Island

Subject: Barren Island 

School: P.S. 312

Year: 2020

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Stories of the Brooklyn Bridge

Subject: Brooklyn Bridge

School: P.S. 307

Year: 2019

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Brooklyn Goes to Battle: A History of the Brooklyn Navy Yard

Subject: Brooklyn Navy Yard

School: P.S. 380

Year: 2019

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The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Book 

Subject: BRT

School: P.S. 282

Year: 2019

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Caribbean Immigrants in Brooklyn: An American Story

Subject: Caribbean Immigration 

School: P.S. 233

Year: 2017

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In Search of the American Dream: A Caribbean Point of View 

Subject: Caribbean Immigration

School: S.T.A.R. Early College School at Erasmus Hall

Year: 2018

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Coney Island: America's Playground

Subject: Coney Island

School: P.S. 312

Year: 2017

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Empire Stores: Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow 

Subject: Empire Stores

School: P.S. 307

Year: 2018

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Erasmus Hall Academy: Brooklyn's First Secondary School 

Subject: Erasmus Hall Academy

School: S.T.A.R. Early College School at Erasmus Hall

Year: 2019

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The Secrets of Evergreens Cemetery 

Subject: The Evergreens Cemetery 

School: P.S. 233

Year: 2019

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Stories of our Brooklyn Firefighters: Tales of Long Ago 

Subject: Firefighters

School: P.S. 158

Year: 2017

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What does it mean to be free?

Subject: Freedom & Abolition 

School: P.S. 312

Year: 2016

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Silent No More: Stories of Our Ancestors 

Subject: Freedom & Abolition 

School: P.S. 158

Year: 2018

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Gravesend Brooklyn: The Story of Us

Subject: Gravesend

School: P.S./I.S. 225

Year: 2019

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Green-Wood Cemetery: Finding Beauty Among the Dead

Subject: Green-Wood Cemetery 

School: P.S. 312

Year: 2018

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Immigrants are the Point of Greenpoint 

Subject: Immigration in Greenpoint

School: P.S. 31

Year: 2019

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The History of the Interborough Rapid Transit

Subject: The I.R.T.

School: P.S. 158

Year: 2019

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Newton Creek is Alive: A Story of Sewage and Oil

Subject: Newton Creek

School: P.S. 31

Year: 2020

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Park Slope: Recollections of Change

Subject: Park Slope

School: P.S. 282

Year: 2017

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Brooklyn's Gem: The Formation of Prospect Park 

Subject: Prospect Park 

School: P.S. 282

Year: 2018

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Keeping Brooklyn Healthy: The Evolution of Our Sewers, Waterways, and Sanitation 

Subject: Sewers

School: Combiination of books by P.S. 158, P.S. 233, P.S. 282, and P.S. 307

Year: 2020

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Sewers: The Things You Wish You Knew...and the Things You Wish You Didn't

Subject: Sewers

School: P.S. 380

Year: 2020

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Sewers, Water and Germs: New York's Battle Against Pandemics

Subject: Sewers 

School: P.S./I.S. 225 

Year: 2020

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Sugar Power: Industry in Greenpoint, 1890-1910

Subject: Sugar Industry 

School: P.S. 31

Year: 2018

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Waterways of Bergen Beach

Subject: Waterfront

School: P.S. 312

Year: 2015

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The Road to Weeksville

Subject: Weeksville

School: P.S. 233 

Year: 2018

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Women, Work, and WWII

Subject: Women; WWII

School: P.S. 307

Year: 2017

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