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  How to Lie with Statistics How to lie with statistics by Darrell Huff is a book that shows the importance of numbers.  As shown obviously by the title, the main focus is on how statistics are used in dishonesty and its flaws. The book explores concepts from the importance of statistics to its dishonest use to bend the information. We usually take statistics as fact because numbers cannot lie. The author delves deeper into uses and shows the readers how it is used to deceive. Darrell Huff was born on July 15, 1913, in Gowrie, Iowa, and passed away on June 27, 2001, in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. His most famous work is “How to Lie with Statistics” written in 1954, which was a best-selling statistics book. He was also a lobbyist for tobacco. In addition to being an author, he was also worked for tobacco companies explaining his influence in the tobacco industry.  The book wasn’t the most entertaining read, but it was very informative. The concepts were well explained a...

. Jandy Nelson, is a Literary agent, a published poet, and a novelist. A couple of her books include, The sky is everywhere and I’ll give you the sun. These are her first and second novels. I'll give you the Sun won a Printz award. She has a BA from Cornell and an MFA from Brown. She has three brothers, Bruce, Bobby and Andy and she lives in California, which is the setting for the two a fore mentioned novels. Her first novel , The sky is everywhere is about a girl named Lennie walker who plays the clarinet deftly and has read Wuthering heights, 23 times. She has a grandmother who is an extremely skillful botanist and who only paints with green paint, an uncle with a large mustache who keeps trying to resurrect dead plants and insects, a quirky best friend, and a sister who recently died. Throughout Lennie’s life, Lennie and Bailey have been extremely close, with Bailey full of life and zeal, and Lennie picturi...

       Recently, I read a story called Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe by Jo Watson Hackl, and here is a short summary of the book.     The main character of this novel is Cricket, a girl whose mother ran away from her family due to stress, and some other causes. To make things even worse, her father died as well. At the beginning of the story, it describes her going to the store with her aunt, to pick up things for the family barbeque. But her aunt accidentally leaves her at the store, and she decides to leave the town and camp in the forest to look for her mother.     Cricket has to follow clues given to her by her mother and find the room of mysterious birds that her mother always talked about. Her mother had wanted to find that room since she learned about it, and cricket thinks that's where she went.      I would recommend this book to people who like realistic fiction with a tinge of magical elements added in because most of...