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“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore

Crookshanks is Hermione’s cat. Crookshanks has a ginger coat and is said to look “lion like” because of it. Crookshanks also has a squashed face. Crookshanks first comes into the Harry Potter movies on movie 3, Harry Potter and The Prisoner Of Azkaban. In the movie Harry Potter, Crookshanks was very good at spotting those who weren’t trustworthy. Crookshanks did however have a fondness for chasing Ron’s rat (Scabbers). Hermione wanted to get an owl but ended up picking Crookshanks when the store owner said no one wanted Crookshanks.

Crackerjack

Crookshanks is actually played by 2 different cats. Although it is heard that there was a third cat though it is not entirely true. Crookshanks is mostly played by Crackerjack. Crackerjack is a male persian cat. In order to get Crookshanks’s long knotty hair, Crackerjack’s owners had to roll up Crackerjack’s shedded fur and clipped them onto him.

Pumpkin

Playing Crookshanks was Pumpkin’s debut as a cat actress. She is a female persian and also played the role of Crookshanks. Pumpkin and Crackerjack shared the role of Crookshanks in the Harry Potter series starting in the third movie. Pumpkin was 10 years old when her owner got her. She was a former rescue and now lives with her new owner in luxury because of the Harry Potter movies. It is also said that Pumpkin got so used to her “diva” life that she refuses normal cat food and wishes to eat roast lamb and chicken instead.

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”

-Sigmund Freud

1. A group of cats is called a clowder
2. Every cat has it’s own unique nose pattern
3. Cats can only hear 48Hz-85,000Hz (humans can hear 20Hz- 20,000Hz)
4. Cats sleep about 70% of their life to conserve energy
5. Cats can jump 6-8 feet from standing still
6. Cats spend 1/3 of it’s day grooming itself
7. Cats can’t taste anything sweet
8. All cats except Cheetahs sheath their claws when not in use
9. Cats greet each other by touching noses
10. Cats do not have collarbones

1. Freida McFadden (author of suspenseful, mysterious and thrilling books)

3 Top Hits: 1. The Housemaid (2022), 2. The Housemaid’s Secret (book 2, 2023), and 3. Never Lie (2022)

2. Elizabeth Strout (author of realism, small-town citizens and fiction books)

Top 3 Hits: 1. Olive Kitteridge (2008), 2. My Name Is Lucy Barton (2016), 3. Oh William! (2021)

3. Emily St. John Mandel(author of mystery, post-apocalypse and speculative books)

Top 3 Hits: 1. Station Eleven (2014), 2. The Glass Hotel (2020), 3. Sea of Tranquility (2022)

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

-William Shakespeare

Dog Man is a book by Dave Pilkey. Dog Man is based off of a dog and his owner (Greg) who got in an accident and had to be taken to the hospital. Because of unfortunate conditions the dogs head had to be sewn onto the mans body. Leading to the beginning of Dog Man.

Dog Man is mainly about Dog Man fighting Petey the cat. Soon Petey and Dog Man join forces when Dog Man becomes friends with Petey’s son (Lil Petey).

Dog Man and his friends go on adventures to solve all sorts of problems with other evil people. Dog Man is the hero of his city.

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“Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates.” – Oliver Gaspirtz

Why Cats?

Cats are loyal and are very swift/agile. While a dog can be your best friend a cat can be your partner in crime. A cats trust means that it would jump off of a cliff with you because when cats trust you that much they’d do something without thinking about it.

Cats have low maintence which means that they can take care of themselves and don’t really need to be looked out for. They also have Lower Exercise needs, which means you don’t have to take them for walks or for any runs. Cats are also indepentdant so you don’t have to look out for them as much.

Why Dogs?

Dogs are very loyal and some breeds make good guard dogs. They are easy to train and remember things very well. Dogs are known as “social ice breakers” and if you walk your dog with some random person who also has a dog both of you already have 1 common interest.

Dogs are very popular and as the saying goes “a dog is a man’s best friend”. They are very active and can help on goals to exercise more. Dogs are also very good at sensing emotions and can help in times of stress or sadness.

So Who Wins?

Well it depends on what the competition is.

If it is most popular pet the dog would win. If it was an actual fight the cat would win (unless it’s a big dog).

But in which one is best it really depends on what you think. If you like cats better than the cat would win. Same for the dog. So it’s all up to you! 😁

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“Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.” – George R. R. Martin

Everyone has their own special unique savvys. A savvy is what someone is good at or what makes you, you. A person could be good at making tacos or drawing puppies. That’s their savvy.

In Savvy by Ingrid Law it’s about the Beaumonts. They have savvys like everyone else but their savvys are special. Mibs’s (Mississippi) 13th birthday is in 2 days. That’s when she gets her savvy.

Her 2 older brothers (Rocket and Fish) have already gotten theirs but theirs was a catastrophe. Everyone is holding their breath for Mibs’s special day. But one day during dinner the Beaumonts get a call. Their dad has been injured in a car crash and isn’t waking up.

Mibs gets her birthday savvy. And she thinks it can wake up her dad. During her birthday party she sneaks onto a bus that sells bibles. The preacher’s kids join Mibs, Samson and Fish as they secretly ride the bus to Salina (the town which their dad is in).

But they get caught by the bus driver. He reluctantly lets them go on his bus and drive them to Salina. Lester (the bus driver) stops to pick up a person named Lill who’s car broke down.

They go to a motel and that’s when Will and Bobbi (the preacher’s kids) understand that the Beaumonts have special powers. Later as they go to one of Lester’s stops (a girl he owes money to) she calls the cops on them because he’s “kidnapping” the “missing” kids from the news.

Eventually Mibs and her family are reunited with their father. Mibs uses her powers to awaken people and she awakens her dad.

“It always seems impossible until it’s done”

-Nelson Mandela

Slacker is a humorous book by Gordan Korman about a kid who loves video games. Cam (Cameron) Boxer is caught up on training for a video game competition and he doesn’t notice his house is full of smoke. He burned ziti and his door got broken by the firemen.

Cam’s parents were not happy about this and told him he had to find some other thing to do in life or they’d take his console away. So Cam and his 2 friends (Pavel and Chuck) make the P.A.G. (Positive Action Group). But it’s fake. Suddenly people become interested in joining for different reasons (saving a beaver, sport wise, academically etc.). Cam is forced to make it a real group that helps people.

The P.A.G. becomes famous when Cam rescues an elderly woman. But they have to shut down the P.A.G. because they “ruin” the jobs they completed. Lawns they mowed become raged and torn. Leaves they raked suddenly appear all over town. And it’s all the Fuzzy Friends fault.

The decide to go into war and fight to win Elvis (the beaver) and get credit for saving him after his friends ditched him when the new mall was built.

But soon everyone’s lives are changed by the demolish of the old highway to make way for the new highway. Parents, Fuzzy Friends and P.A.G. combine to help save their town.