Today, Roaches in My Cereal: And the Moral Imperative to Reimagine School officially opens for presale.
This book is deeply personal—and unapologetically honest.
It is about what it means to grow up chasing success while navigating and overcoming poverty, trauma, and invisibility, and what schools can and should become when they choose belonging over bureaucracy, belief over bias, and humanity over habit.
It is a call to educators, leaders, parents, and policymakers to reimagine school not as a sorting mechanism—but as a place where every child is seen, challenged, and supported.
This is more than a memoir; it’s a call to action.
Through lived experience, educational leadership, and unwavering truth, I challenge how schools respond to poverty, trauma, and low expectations and invite us all to reimagine what’s possible when care and rigor coexist.
If you believe:
• Belonging is essential to learning
• High expectations and empathy must coexist
• Schools can be places of healing and possibility
This book is for you.
🗓 Official Release: January 13, 2026
📦 Pre-Order Starts: December 30, 2025
📍 Available on Amazon | Kindle | eBooks
👉 Pre-Order now at https://a.co/d/cWmFpwx or https://www.thevtfcollective.com/drmelvinjbrown and join the movement to build schools where every student belongs, grows, and succeeds.
Thank you for walking this journey with me.
January 13, 2026 is coming—but it starts today.
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