NEW YORK – MARCH 28, 2017 – Morgan James’s new release, Lunch Money Can’t Shoot by Michael Levin and Jack Pannell encourages discourse about race amongst middle schoolers.
William Barnes is called “Room Service” by bigger kids who shake him down for his lunch money. When his neighborhood becomes too rough, his mother moves him to an all-white suburb where everyone thinks that, because he is African American and from the inner-city, he must be good at basketball.
Conflict arises when the school learns Barnes is not an athlete. Lunch Money Can’t Shoot deals honestly with the issue of race and provides a fun and entertaining springboard for students, their families, teachers, and peers to begin conversations about race relations. Written from the point of view of an adolescent African American boy, Lunch Money Can’t Shoot can be read by all middle-schoolers helping them gain a new perspective on racial relations.
If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Michael Levin and Jack Pannell, please call Nickcole Watkins at 516.900.5674.
About the Author:
Twice a New York Times Bestselling Author, Michael Levin writes about race in his national bestsellers Dropping the Ball, No Ordinary Love, and Banking On Our Future. He has worked with hall of famer athletes, ESPN commentators, and United Nations ambassadors. He is raising four mixed-race children, including 12-year-old twins who have been a sounding board throughout the creation of the Milk Money series.
Jack J. Pannell, Jr. is the founder of the Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, an urban, college prep charter school and is the President of the Five Smooth Stones Foundation, Inc., an organization transforming a generation of urban boys with education. In developing Baltimore Collegiate, Mr. Pannell studied over thirty high-performing schools and also taught at one of the lowest performing schools in Maryland. He is the former Executive Director of the Baltimore Curriculum Project.
More About This Title:
Lunch Money Can’t Shoot will be released by Morgan James Publishing on March 28, 2017. Lunch Money Can’t Shoot – ISBN 978-1683501107 – has 140 pages and is being sold as trade paperback for $12.95.
About Morgan James Publishing:
Morgan James publishes trade quality titles designed to educate, encourage, inspire, or entertain readers with current, consistent, relevant topics that are available everywhere books are sold. (www.MorganJamesPublishing.com)
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