No Talking by Andrew Clements shared by paris

This book is about a boy named Dave Packer who thinks that boys can talk less in two days than girls, while a girl named Lynsey Burgess thinks that girls can talk less in two days than boys. The argument steams up when Dave challenges Lynsey to a " no talking" contest. The problem with this is that the fifth graders at Laketon Elementary School have been the noisiest in history. Teachers start to notice and want to stop the silence immediately, but one of them thinks that the silence will start a new way of communication. In the end, neither side wins, since both sides talked a grand total of 47 words each. I liked how the contest became dramatic and exciting.