Introduce students to the settings of well-loved children's books with engaging selections and a variety of geography and extension activities from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, Marion Dane Bauer's On My Honor, Carol Ryrie Brink's Caddie Woodlawn and Magical Melons, Sterling North's Rascal, and Irene Hunt's Across Five Aprils. Also included are attractive and detailed maps, drawings, and photographs. As readers experience stories in the context of their settings, they build their knowledge of geography, literature, history, social studies, mathematics, and science. Grades 3-8.

Volume IV continues what began with the first three installments of Jonah Black's diary: the no-holds-barred, darkly comic tale of one teenager's inner life. Teens will find a new kind of hero in Jonah: one whose acute observations mirror their own. The journals, in print for all to read, are irresistibly honest and revealing, and sure to satisfy any reader's desire for a real, juicy story.
This installment brings us to the final, shocking revelations about Jonah's recent past.

In Volume III, Jonah hooks up with the girl he left behind -- the same one who got him expelled from boarding school up north.

Volume II reveals why Johan was expelled from boarding school -- but not why he did what he did, or just what that girl meant to him.

Traditionally, series fiction for teens is light, fluffy, and more likely to be found in a beach bag than on a required summer reading list. But lately, series fiction is starting to take itself a bit more, well, seriously, a good example being The Black Book: Diary of a Teenage Stud by the mysterious Jonah Black. A projected trilogy, the true author of Jonah's fictitious journal is hiding behind the Black name, apparently not yet willing to take credit for this Twin Peak-ish, literary sex tale. In the first volume, "Girls, Girls, Girls," Jonah reveals his difficulty in separating his rich imaginary life with the real world.