Tasty Reads - Easy & Young Readers | Westchester Library System

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Eager to do something her big sister has not done first, Jasmine Toguchi, eight, decides to pound mochi with the men and boys when her family gets together for New Year's.

2) I really like slop!

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Willems, Mo

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"Piggie really likes slop. She likes it so much, she wants Gerald to try some! But can Gerald find the courage to do it? Or will the smell alone be too much to handle?"--

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Gigi tries natto, a traditional Japanese food.

4) Food truck fiasco

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Michalak, Jamie

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Frank likes peace and quiet. He likes his tea, his book, and his yoga mat. He is just settling in to enjoy them, when . . . honk! honk! honk! Here comes Bean with his new food truck! It is fun on wheels! It's a rolling party! Bean is going to Food Truck Friday to sell his donuts. Bean's donuts have zip. They have zing. They are sure to win the competition! Frank has something to sell, too. He has oatmeal. Oatmeal is boring. It needs zip. It needs...

5) Green eggs and ham

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Seuss

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Sam-I-am tries to persuade the character in the top hat to try green eggs and ham.

6) Yum Fest is the best!

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Tharp, Jason

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Can a chicken nugget and a hot dog who are friends and founders of K.E.T.C.H.U.P., a club that spreads kindness and empathy, stop evil Crouton and Dijon Mustard from ruining Yum Fest, a popular fair in Gastropolis?

7) Lunch will never be the same!

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Hiranandani, Veera

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When Camille, a tall French girl, arrives at school with unusual lunches, third-grader Phoebe neglects her best friend Sage to get invited to Camille's house for dinner to see what other mysterious food Camille eats.

8) The case of the snack snatcher

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O'Donnell, Liam

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Myron must discover who stole the snacks.

9) Jack and the snackstalk

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Jones, Noah

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It is scary movie night at Moldylocks' house; the guests are Princess Pink and Moldy's cousin Jack, who has brought some nasty-tasting jelly beans for a snack--but when the beans sprout into a pillar of snacks the three friends climb up and find themselves sharing a tasty but dangerous adventure in Snackland.

10) Cornbread & Poppy

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Cordell, Matthew

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Cautious Cornbread and carefree Poppy are best friends, so when Poppy fails to prepare for winter, Cornbread ventures up Holler Mountain with her to help her find food.

11) Pete's big lunch

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Dean, James

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Pete the cat decides to make a sandwich for lunch, but as it gets bigger and bigger, he wonders how he'll be able to eat it all.

12) Mindy Kim and the yummy seaweed business

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Lee, Lyla

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Mindy Kim wants to fit in at her new school, but her favorite lunch leads to scorn, then a thriving business, and finally big trouble.

13) The case of the missing tarts

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Curran-Bauer, Christee

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When someone slips into the precinct and steals Mama Pigeon's tarts, pigeon detectives Martin P. Sweets, Felix Danish, and Ralph Custard follow the clues to find out who stole the delicious treats.

14) The cookie fiasco

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Willems, Mo

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"There are only three cookies and four hungry friends to share them with. This is not good. This is not equal!"--

15) Thunder and Cluck: Friends do not eat friends

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Esbaum, Jill

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Big, scary, and hungry Thunder the dinosaur wants to chase and chomp Cluck, a small but brave dinosaur, but Cluck has decided that they will be friends.

16) Diner dogs

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Seltzer, Eric

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"In this entertaining Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read, the diner dogs who work at the Bow Wow diner fetch tea and coffee and love belly rubs as they serve all the hungry customers." --

17) Snail finds a home

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Peterson, Mary

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Snail is a merry little mollusk in his rusty bucket filled with strawberries. Strawberries are his favorite treat, but when he eats himself sick, his best friend Ladybug tells him he has to move away from the yummy red fruit. She takes him looking for a forever home, but Snail roams away from his friend and runs into a hungry Chicken. Rut-roh! Will he make it to his new home or be a tasty treat for this famished, feathered fiend?