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For the creative come Great Girl Food: Easy Eats and Tempting Treats for Girls to Make, illus. by Judy Pelikan ($7.95, -483-9), and Jazz Up Your Jeans: Tips & Tricks to Wake Up Your Wardrobe by Brooks Whitney, illus. by Geri Strigenz Bourget ($8.95, -484-7). And two books dish out advice: The Care and Keeping of Friends, illus. by Nadine Westcott ($7.95, -482-0), and the A-to-Z More Help!: Another Absolutely Indispensable Guide to Life for Girls by Nancy Holyoke, illus. by Scott Nash ($4.95, -481-2). Also, with the purchase of any American Girls book, girls can get an American Girls T-shirt for $6.95. (Pleasant Co., ages 8-12, Sept.)