Constructed Response: The Treasure Of Lemon Brown By Walter Dean Myers

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Constructed Response: “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers

Prompt: Assign one character trait to Lemon Brown and support your characterization with three examples from the text.

Question to answer: What kind of person is Lemon Brown?

Your final Draft goes below: In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers, Lemon Brown is brave. Lemon Brown can stand up for himself

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