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SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS · An imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division · 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10020 ·www.SimonandSchuster.com· This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. · Copyright © 2007 by Andrew Clements · All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. · SIMON & SCHUSTER BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS is a trademark of Simon & Schuster, Inc. · Book design by Alicia Mikles · The text for this book is set in Bembo. · Cover illustration copyright © 2007 by Brian Selznick · Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data · Clements,Andrew, 1949- · No talking / Andrew Clements. —1st ed. · p. cm. · Summary:The noisy fifth-grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth-grade girls to a “no talking” contest. · ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-0983-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) · ISBN-10: 1-4169-0983-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) ·ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-9519-7 (eBook) · [1. Contests—Fiction. 2. Behavior—Fiction. 3. Communication—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction.] I.Title. · PZ7.C59118No 2007 · [Fic]—dc22 · 2006031883