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African American Tennager's Treasure
Do you know what treasure is.Greg Ridley a African african american tennager learns that not treasure has to be gems,gold and silver.Treasure does not need to be valuable in money but can be valuable in family.Treasure can be anything you want it to be .Treasure can be something that is not even old.

Greg is a 14 year old tennage who lives in, Harlem New York with his mother and father.Greg wants to join the scorpions a famous basketball team but Gegs father does not want him to do his poor grades.Lemon Brown Is a old man who use to be a blues singer called Sweet Lemon Brown.Lemon Brown said “I sung the blues so sweet that if I sang at a funeral the dead would commence to rocking with the beat.” Lemon Brown lost his wife and son and stopped
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Greg wants to be on the scorpion's basketball team but his father will not let him until he gets his grades up and his father always lectures him about his poor efforts in school.Greg dad says” I had to leave school when I was thirteen”.Greg does not respect and understand his father.Lemon brown Lost his wife and son(who was in the army) in the war.After that Lemon Brown quiet music and never sang again.Lemo Brown never got another job after that and became poor.

I have a treasure that is very valuable to me my family.My family and my pictures of Daddy are the most important things to me.My Mommy,Daddy pictures ,Grandma,Papa,Meek Meek,Aunt treasy,Uncle scott,My,Uncle jason,Timiaya ,Tamara and Tory and everyone in my family are very valuable to me.Including my new baby cousin Jaxon who is my uncle scott’s and untie treasy son.I find everyone in my family valuable even if they are fur

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