"No one pays much attention to you if you don’t have much to say, so there was no way I could have predicted what would happen when I stopped talking altogether." When his teacher announces that it’s time for the yearly class speeches, Griffin Maxwell starts to sweat. His past experience with the dreaded speech was humiliating. So Griffin’s best friend, Bryan, comes up with a solution. From squaring off with the school bully to reading a teacher’s private letters from Africa, Griffin will have to face things he never imagined, and all without saying a word!