prediction and evidence of the title of the novel no talking
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No Talking
By Andrew Clements
About the Book
Keeping quiet at school has got to be a good thing, right? It turns out that, when taken to
extremes, silence can cause all kinds of trouble. So when arch-nemeses Dave and Lynsey agree
to a boys-against-girls challenge to keep silent for two days, Principal Hiatt must put a stop to it.
But Dave, Lynsey, and the rest of Laketon Elementary’s exceedingly noisy, argumentative fifth
graders don’t want to start talking again. Instead, they find themselves working together in a
quiet act of civil disobedience. As the entire school joins the experiment, both adults and kids
come to realize that, much more than mere noise, talking is a source of individual
empowerment and dignity in Clements’s intriguing, often humorous exploration of
communication and group control.
“No Talking is Clements’s best school story since Frindle.” —The New York Times Book Review