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The pushcarts have declared war!  New York City's streets are clogged with huge, rude trucks that park where they want, hold up traffic, and bulldoze into anything that is in their way, and the pushcart peddlers are determined to get rid of them. But the trucks are just as determined to get rid of the pushcarts, and chaos results in the city.



The pushcarts have come up with a brilliant strategy that will surely let the hot air out of their enemies.  The secret weapon--a peashooter armed with a pin; the target--the vulnerable truck tires.  Once the source of the flat tires is discovered, the children of the city joyfully join in with their own pin peashooters.  The pushcarts have won one battle, but can they win the war against a corrupt mayor who taxes the pins and prohibits the sale of dried peas?

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• I How It Began: The Daffodil Massacre (p. 13)
• II The Blow-up of Marvin Seeley's Picture (p. 17)
• III More About Morris the Florist & A Little About Frank the Flower and Maxie Hammerman, the Pushcart King (p. 21)
• IV The Summer Before the War (p. 25)
• V Wenda Gambling Sees the Danger Signs (p. 31)
• VI The Peanut Butter Speech (p. 33)
• VII The Words That Triggered the War (p. 35)
• VIII The Secret Meeting & The Declaration of War (p. 39)
• IX The Secret Campaign Against the Pushcarts (p. 47)
• X The Meeting at Maxie Hammerman's: The Pushcarts Decide to Fight (p. 53)
• XI The Secret Weapon (p. 59)
• XII The Pea Shooter Campaign-Phase I (p. 65)
• XIII Maxie Hammerman's Battle Plan & General Anna's Hester Street Strategy (p. 75)
• XIV Some Theories As to the Cause of the Flat Tires: The Rotten-Rubber Theory, The Scattered Pea-Tack Theory, and The Enemy-from-Outer-Space Theory (p. 83)
• XV The Arrest of Frank the Flower (p. 91)
• XVI Big Moe's Attack on the Police Commissioner (p. 101)
• XVII The Pea Shooter Campaign-Phase II (p. 105)
• XVIII The Retreat of the Trucks & Rumors of a Build-up on the Fashion Front (p. 113)
• XIX The Tacks Tax & The British Ultimatum (p. 117)
• XX The Pea Blockade (p. 121)
• XXI The Barricade at Posey's Plant (p. 125)
• XXII The Raid on Maxie Hammerman's (p. 131)
• XXIII The Questioning of Maxie Hammerman (p. 139)
• XXIV The Portlette Papers: The LEMA Master Plan & The Plot to Capture Maxie Hammerman (p. 143)
• XXV The Three-Against-One Gamble & The Capture of the Bulletproof Italian Car (p. 153)
• XXVI Maxie Hammerman's War Chest: A Philosophy of War (p. 161)
• XXVII The Truck Drivers' Manifesto (p. 165)
• XXVIII The Truce (p. 167)
• XXIX The Peace March (p. 173)
• XXX Mack's Attack (p. 179)
• XXXI The Sneak Attack (p. 187)
• XXXII Frank the Flower's Crocheted Target (p. 191)
• XXXIII The Turning Point: The War of Words (p. 197)
• XXXIV The Battle of Bleecker Street (p. 207)
• XXXV The Pushcart Peace Conference & The Formulation of The Flower Formula for Peace (p. 213)
• XXXVI The Post-War Years (p. 219)

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