{"id":9240,"date":"2026-08-04T14:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T14:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=9240"},"modified":"2026-08-05T20:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:34:06","slug":"emily-galvin-almanza-book-talk-kids","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/events\/emily-galvin-almanza-book-talk-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Galvin Almanza Book Talk (kids)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Help children learn their rights! Join author and former public defender\u00a0<strong>Emily Galvin Almanza<\/strong>\u00a0on Wednesday, September 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0at 3:30pm for a conversation about her debut middle grade novel\u00a0<strong>ANDROMEDA DIAZ AND THE REASONABLE DOUBT<\/strong>, which is meant to entertain and educate kids (and parents) about justice, mercy, due process, and the presumption of innocence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The\u00a0<em>Andromeda\u00a0Diaz<\/em>\u00a0series follows a girl whose parents are public defenders\u2014and who, therefore, knows a thing or two about how to help a friend who stands wrongly accused of a crime.\u00a0Andromeda is an unforgettable mix of\u00a0Harriet the Spy and Perry Mason,\u00a0and, with her best friend Danny Sullivan, ready to take on\u2014and overcome\u2014any accusation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emily will teach kids how to protect themselves and each other, and also speak about her work as a public defender and parent, and why she wanted to write a book for kids about knowing their rights. She\u2019ll answer questions from the audience and sign copies of\u00a0<strong>ANDROMEDIA DIAZ AND THE REASOANABLE DOUBT<\/strong>, which will be for sale courtesy of Bunch of Grapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help children learn their rights! Join author and former public defender\u00a0Emily Galvin Almanza\u00a0on Wednesday, September 9th\u00a0at 3:30pm for a conversation about her debut middle grade novel\u00a0ANDROMEDA DIAZ AND THE REASONABLE DOUBT, which is meant to entertain and educate kids (and parents) about justice, mercy, due process, and the presumption of innocence. The\u00a0Andromeda\u00a0Diaz\u00a0series follows a girl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-9240","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/9240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9240"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=9240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}