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Yearling
June 1987
On Sale: June 1, 1987
224 pages ISBN: 0440471478 EAN: 9780440471479 Paperback (reprint)
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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? The outbreak of a war between truck drivers and pushcart
peddlers brings the mounting problems of traffic to the
attention of both the city of New York and the world.
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