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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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No Talking

No Talking

Clements, Andrew
Elliott, Mark

Hardcover

General Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1416909834
ISBN13: 9781416909835
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: Jun 1 2007
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.60 Depth: 8.56
Language: English
Awards: Beehive Awards, Black-Eyed Susan Award, California Young Reader Medal, Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award, Colorado Children's Book Award, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, Flicker Tale Children's Book Award, Golden Archer Award, Great Stone Face Book Award, Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award, Land of Enchantment Book Award, Massachusetts Children's Book Award, Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award, Nevada Young Readers' Award, Nutmeg Book Award, Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award, South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award, Sunshine State Young Reader's Award, Virginia Readers Choice Award, Volunteer State Book Awards, West Virginia Children's Book Award, Young Reader's Choice Award
You have the right to remain silent. However...

The fifth-grade girls and the fifth-grade boys at Laketon Elementary don't get along very well. But the real problem is that these kids are loud and disorderly. That's why the principal uses her red plastic bullhorn. A lot.

Then one day Dave Packer, a certified loudmouth, bumps into an idea -- a big one that makes him try to keep quiet for a whole day. But what does Dave hear during lunch? A girl, Lynsey Burgess, jabbering away. So Dave breaks his silence and lobs an insult. And those words spark a contest: Which team can say the fewest words during two whole days? And it's the boys against the girls.

How do the teachers react to the silence? What happens when the principal feels she's losing control? And will Dave and Lynsey plunge the whole school into chaos?

This funny and surprising book is about language and thought, about words unspoken, words spoken in anger, and especially about the power of words spoken in kindness...with or without a bullhorn. It's Andrew Clements at his best -- thought-provoking, true-to-life, and very entertaining.

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