No Talking by Andrew Clements Review
My third Andrew Clements book! The first two I read were Frindle and The Report Card back when I was a kid. Then I reread them a few years ago and loved them the same. I did try reading Lunch Money about a year or so ago, but DNF'd it. But I read this one in its entirety and really liked it!
No Talking is about Dave and Lynsey--two fifth graders who annoy each other a lot. Their fifth grade class is notorious for being unable to stop talking. So much so that their group has been nicknamed "The Unshushables". After embarassing Lynsey in class for not properly doing an oral report, Dave makes a bet that the girls probably can't go a long time without talking. Lynsey bets that the boys can't go a long time without talking either. Dave gets all of the boys on his side, and Lynsey all of the girls. Pretty soon their social experiment of not talking and communicating with few words possible extends to the whole fifth grade! It weirds out the teachers--but pretty soon they come to embrace their little social experiment, too.
This book was just as fun (and funny!) as Frindle and The Report Card! Andrew Clements's books really like following the formula of kids getting a weird idea and then it spreads all over their school. I gave this book 5 stars!
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