Pinch and Dash's disagreement over the use of pepper and hot sauce in their soup ends up spoiling the meal.

A rhythmic text with repetitive phrases relates how the children watch Mamá make soup (recipe included) and go with Papá to get tortillas before enjoying the results of her labor.

Nathan's career as a half-dead zombie spy may be over just as his training has begun when he and friends Abigail and Mookie enter East Craven's sewers to investigate the greasy green goop dripping from every faucet in town.

The adventures of prankster Emil, whose exploits include stranding his little sister at the top of a flagpole, disappearing from a locked woodshed, and getting his head stuck in a soup tureen--twice.

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While seventeen-year-old Sloane shares a drunken kiss with her best friend Piper's boyfriend Soup, Piper is murdered on a nearby beach, and over the next few days, Sloane and Soup are left reliving their past moments with Piper, wondering if they are responsible for her death and figuring out how to move on without her.