No Talking is a book about a fifth grade class. Two students, Dave Packer and Lynsey Burgess, refuse to stop talking. Throughout the day, every day, they talk nonstop. On top of the already existing competition between boys and girls (each gender not particularly liking the other), a dare is created between Dave and Lynsey. Nobody is allowed to talk. They can say no more than three words to the teacher, but that is only if asked a question directly. The whole class becomes involved in the competition to find out who can stay silent the longest. They get swept in over their heads in the contest. They suddenly have to come together to face their common enemy: the principal. The one who is always trying to quiet them down, and now is doing the opposite. Will the fifth grade class of Laketon Elementary School be able stay silent?