No Talking / Andrew Clements / 155 pages

It's boys against the girls....or is it the students against the faculty and administration?  The noisiest class in the school, the fifth graders, double dog dare each other not to talk for the next forty-eight hours.  The rules proclaim a limit of three words to be uncountable, but all other spoken words count against the team.  Inspired by Ghandi and his silence for freedom and self-realization, the scheme radically alters life and learning at the middle school.  Andrew Clements' books are all great read-a-louds with great, age-appropriate themes.