{"id":2894,"date":"2026-10-30T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/meet-sophia-parekh-12-who-has-given-away-over-8000-books-in-us\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:30:00","slug":"meet-sophia-parekh-12-who-has-given-away-over-8000-books-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/meet-sophia-parekh-12-who-has-given-away-over-8000-books-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Sophia Parekh, 12, who has given away over 8,000 books in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophia Parekh, a 12-year-old from Westfield, New Jersey, has distributed more than 8,000 free books to children across the US through Sophia&#8217;s Book Stand, a project she started at age seven during the Covid pandemic. She personally selects books based on children&#8217;s ages and interests and also supports teachers in underserved schools. Her efforts earned her recognition as a runner-up for the 2026 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophia Parekh, a 12-year-old from Westfield, New Jersey, has distributed more than 8,000 free books to children across the US through Sophia&#8217;s Book Stand, a project she started at age seven during the Covid pandemic. She personally selects books based on children&#8217;s ages and interests and also supports teachers in underserved schools. Her efforts earned her recognition as a runner-up for the 2026 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keedanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}