24 / 88 2017-18 cover kid iyannah b. the digger and the flower by joseph kuefler each day, the big trucks go to work. they scoop and hoist and push. but when digger discovers something growing in the rubble, a beautiful blue flower, he sets in motion a series of events that will change him, and the city, forever. this is a great read for all the big machine fans out there and teaches a sweet lesson about the environment. a monster calls by patrick ness and siobhan dowd thirteen-year-old conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window one night. but it isn?t the monster conor?s been expect- ing. the monster in his backyard is different. it?s ancient. and wild. and it wants the truth. dive into this haunting and funny novel about a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. the running dream by wendelin van draanen jessica, a sprinter, thinks her