The Motorway (Oxford Reading Tree Stage 7)

Soon, big lorries and bulldozers came to the village. Nobody wanted the motorway. Everyone wanted to stop it, but the bulldozers began to dig.
Gran looked at the bulldozers.
"The motorway will spoil the countryside," she said. "Now we won't be able to walk in the woods and go on picnics."

The Motorway tells the story of Gran's fight against a motorway scheduled to be built through her village. Everyone is against the motorway but no-one has a good way of fighting against it. Everyone says that it has to be built somewhere. But Gran has an idea based on the kinds of flowers that can be found in the village.

Hunt, Roderick, and Brychta, Alex. (2003). The Motorway. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.