cover image What a Girl Wants: The Ultimate Survival Guide for Beauty, Health, and Happiness

What a Girl Wants: The Ultimate Survival Guide for Beauty, Health, and Happiness

Karen Cooper. Chicken House, $4.99 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-439-29638-0

With sections titled, ""Relationships 101,"" ""Beauty & Style Basics"" and ""Health & Happiness,"" What a Girl Wants: The Ultimate Survival Guide for Beauty, Health, and Happiness by Karen Cooper, illus. by Mei Lim, offers tips on everything from ""how to be true to you"" to keeping physically fit. Not only is there advice on how to break into the music business, given by the members of ""KandyFloz,"" but Create Your Own Girl Band by Janet Hoggarth offers some music history, quizzes, ""PSST! Gossip"" (e.g., ""Britney nearly joined girl band Innosense before she made it big"") and related Web sites. Girl Net: A Girls' Guide to the Internet and More! by Sarra Manning, illus. by Phil Corbett, covers the basics (e.g., ""The Internet and how to use it"") as well as tackling more complicated challenges, such as ""How to make your own website."" One chapter provides Web addresses popular for teens. (July)