No Talking

Title: No Talking
Author: Andrew Clements
Genre: Fiction
Reviewer: Billy

No Talking is about a boy named Dave that attends Laketon Elementry School in New Jersey. Dave's main hobby is talking, actually the whole grades' hobby is talking. They were nicknamed the unshushables because of this bad habit. This is how the whole story started. Dave was doing a report on India when he came across a man named Gandhi. Gandhi would not speak for one day of the week every week. Gandhi thought this helped clear his mind and gave him time to think. Dave was very tempted to try this, so he did. Half-way through his challenge he made a bet with a girl, Lynsey Burgess, to not talk for two days, every one in the grade was involved with this challenge. Many rules were made, one was if you made a mess up it counted as a point, whoever had the most points at the end lost. The challenge caused many problems, but it still went on. Throughout the chapters it gets more interesting, like having an assembly to tell the students to talk and go back to their normal selves. I don't know why they would want them to be loud once again.

I would highly recommend this book. The plot of this book was very good. I thought it was a page turner and kept on luring me in chapter after chapter. The outcome will surprise you very much. I could understand how it would be to not talk for that long. Read this book you will love it!