The Basketball Diaries: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets Penguin Teen With growing support for movements

With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples' Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

and even warn each other of impending dangers

Organized into fifty-two short chapters

When long-kept secrets begin to rise to the surface

The Basketball Diaries: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets Penguin Teen With growing support for movementsThe urban classic coming of age story about sex, drugs, and basketball Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid 1960s, set during his coming of age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving streets of New York City. During these years, he chronicled his experiences, and the result is a diary of unparalleled candor that conveys his alternately