Which excerpt from "The Treasure of Lemon Brown would provide strong evidence that Greg tries to avoid his father at the beginning of the story?
He had asked his father the week before and his father had said it depended on his next report card. It wasn't
often the Scorpions took on new players, especially fourteen-year-olds, and this was a chance of a lifetime for
Greg
"And you want to play basketball?" His father's brows knitted over deep brown eyes "That must be some kind of a
joke Now you just get into your room and hit those books
His father's words like the distant thunder that now echoed through the streets of Harlem, still rumbled softly in
his ears
He stood to go upstairs, thought of the lecture that probably awaited him if he did anything except shut
himself in his room with his math book, and started walking down the street instead
He sat a while watching the sign blink first green then red allowing his mind to drift to the Scorpions, then to his
father. His father had been a postal worker for all Greg's life, and was proud of it Greg had heard the story too
many times to be interested now