Books in American Girl Library series

This book is full of everyday ways for girls to relax, re-energize, and have fun taking care of their bodies and spirits. Girls can mix up their own face masks and hair helpers. They can try a marble massage or a yoga pose. They can make their own lip gloss and body mists. And girls can pamper their friends, too, with a spa party. Spa for Girls will show them how!

There's so much to do online that it's hard for girls to know where to start - and which sites and services are right for them. A Smart Girl's Guide to the Internet can help. Readers will hear from other girls about their time online. They'll take quizzes and read tips that will show the how to be smart - and safe - Internet users. And there's even space at the back of the book for recording favorite Web sites. The more girls know about the Internet, the more they'll get out of it - and the more fun they'll have along the way.

Read tales of real dogs and the girls who love them, including a Seeing Eye dog-in-training, a show dog, and a hurricane survivor. Learn to bake dog treats, doodle a poodle, even decorate a "pupcake." Take a quiz to see how much you know about how dogs communicate--then find out your own pooch personality. Includes a list of great names for your favorite canine. Plus, 3 mini posters and 24 dog breed trading cards. This one's sure to be dog-eared in no time!

Girls can enjoy all six beloved Kit stories in one keepsake volume. Set in 1934, each story reveals more of this resourceful girl who has bright hopes during the dark days of the Great Depression. The richly illustrated hardcover offers a glimpse into Kit's world. Inside, this book features even more full-color illustrations and words of inspiration that will delight girls who love Kit.

We've packed the pages of this book with girls' favorite puzzles (word play, logic problems, crosswords, and more!) themed around their favorite things (family, friends, pizza, and parties)! Starting with America and ending with Zoos, this 128-page book will keep girls solving puzzles and reading riddles for hours. Colorful illustrations will make solving puzzles even more fun.

THE ESSENTIAL PLAYLIST OF GREAT WRITING ABOUT THE MUSIC THAT ROCKED AMERICA Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar's Shake It Up invites the reader into the tumult and excitement of the rock revolution through fifty landmark pieces by a supergroup of writers on rock in all its variety, from heavy metal to disco, punk to hip-hop. Stanley Booth describes a recording session with Otis Redding; Ellen Willis traces the meteoric career of Janis Joplin; Ellen Sander recalls the chaotic world of Led Zeppelin on tour; Nick Tosches etches a portrait of the young Jerry Lee Lewis; Eve Babitz remembers Jim Morrison. Alongside are Lenny Kaye on acapella and Greg Tate on hip-hop, Vince Aletti on disco and Gerald Early on Motown; Robert Christgau on Prince, Nelson George on Marvin Gaye, Luc Sante on Bob Dylan, Hilton Als on Michael Jackson, Anthony DeCurtis on the Rolling Stones, Kelefa Sanneh on Jay Z. The story this anthology tells is a ongoing one: “it’s too early,” editors Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar note, “for canon formation in a field so marvelously volatile—a volatility that mirrors, still, that of pop music itself, which remains smokestack lightning. The writing here attempts to catch some in a bottle.” Also features:NAT HENTOFF on BOB DYLAN AMIRI BARAKA on R&B LESTER BANGS on ELVIS PRESLEY ROBERT CHRISTGAU on PRINCE DEBRA RAE COHEN on DAVID BOWIE EVE BABITZ on JIM MORRISON ROBERT PALMER on SAM COOKE CHUCK KLOSTERMAN on HEAVY METAL JESSICA HOPPER on EMO JOHN JEREMIAH SULLIVAN on AXL ROSE ELIJAH WALD on THE BEATLES GREIL MARCUS on CHRISTIAN MARCLAY and much more.