Prison Bookmobile Project

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St. John Public Libraries

- Elaine Ione Sprauve PL

St. Thomas Public Libraries
- Enid M. Baa PL & Archives

 

- St. Thomas Bookmobile

 

- NEW St. Thomas Regional Library

St. Croix Public Libraries

 

- Florence Williams PL

 

- Athalie M. Petersen PL

 

- Regional Library for the Blind & Physically Handicapped

 

- St. Croix Bookmobile

 

-Sunny Isle Kiosk (Temporarily Closed)

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Friends of the Public Library

 

St. Croix Reading Campaign

Society of V.I. Historians

 

St. Croix Landmarks Society

 

St. Croix Heritage Dancers

 

St. Thomas Historical Trust

 

St. John Historical Society

 

     

Danish West Indies (DWI)

History in Danish

 

 

 

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Tools for Teachers:

Lesson plans & Activities

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Public libraries in the Virgin Islands are administered by the Department of Planning & Natural Resources (DPNR).

 

                                                     

                

                

 

The Department of Planning and Natural Resources Division of Libraries, Archives & Museums through the Virgin Islands Center for the Book is pleased to announce the VI Letters About Literature student winners 2010.

 

Letters About Literature is an annual national reading and writing promotion program sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, presented in partnership with Target and affiliate state centers for the book.  Locally, the Virgin Islands Center for the Book is the first Center for the Book affiliate in the U.S. Territories. 

 

Students wrote a personal letter to an author explaining how that author's work changed the reader's way of thinking about the world or themselves. There were three competition levels: Level I for grades 4 through 6; Level II for grades 7 and 8, and Level III, grades 9 - 12.  The first place winning entries on each level were forwarded to the national level judging.

 

Locally, the first place winners will receive a cash award of $100, a $50 Target gift card, reader’s book Journal and certificate of appreciation. The 2^nd and 3^rd runners up, on each level, will receive a cash award of $50.00, a reader’s book journal and certificate of appreciation.  The awards program was held May 15th at the Florence Williams Public Library in Christiansted.

 

1^st Place Winners – Levels I – III

 

Level I  (grades 4 thru 6) = Obasi D.E. Luke,  Ricardo Richards Elementary School sixth grader, won first place on Level 1 for his letter to J.K. Rowlings, author of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

 

Level II (grades 7 & 8) = Catherine Phelan,  VI Montessori and International Academy eighth grader,  won first place on Level 2 for her letter to Ann Brashares, author of Girls In Pants The Third Summer of Sisterhood.

           

Level III (grades 9 thru 12) = Kristina Chardon, St. Joseph High School senior, won first place on Level 3 for her letter to Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of Butterflies.

 

2^nd place runners up on Levels I – III

 

Level I (grades 4 thru 6) = Chelsea Valery, Ricardo Richards Elementary School fourth grader,

won second place on Level 1 for her letter to Candy Dawson Boyd, author of Circle of Gold.

           

Level II (grades 7 & 8) = JahCira Hodge, VI Montessori and International Academy, seventh 

grader won second place on Level 2 for her letter to S.E. Hinton, author of The Outsiders.

 

 Level III (grades 9 thru 12) = Rochella Davis, St. Joseph High School senior, won second place on Level 3 for her letter to Maya Angelou, Ph.D.  author of poem, I know Why The Caged Bird Sings.

 

3^rd place runners up Levels I – III

 

 Level I (grades 4 thru 6) – Shideya Parrilla, Ricardo Richards Elementary School sixth grader, won third place on Level 1 for her letter to Judy Blume, author of Tiger Eyes.

                                                             

 Level II (grades 7 & 8) = Brianna Olive, VI Montessori and International Academy eighth grader, won third place on Level 2 for her letter to Richard Wright, author of  Rite of Passage.

 

 Level III (grades 9 thru 12) = Angeles Cruz, St. Joseph High School senior, won third place on Level  3 for his letter to Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed.

 

Just under 70,000, adolescent and young adult readers nationwide in grades 4 through 12 participated in this year’s Letters About Literature program, which encourages young people, grades 4-12, to write personal letters to authors about how their books impacted the students’ lives. The letters were submitted to the Library of Congress Center for the Book, went through two rounds of judging and then the semi-finalists letters were returned to the VI for territory-wide ranking by judges which determined the territory’s winners.  National winners will be announced this month. 

 

For more information, visit the Letters About Literature website www.lettersaboutliterature.org.  For more information about the VI Letters About Literature program or the Virgin Islands Public Libraries, contact Ingrid Bough, Territorial Directorat 773-5715, or visit the website at www.virginislandspubliclibraries.org.