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|  | A Look at Venus by Diane Moser, Kit Moser, Ray Spangenburg
Description not available.Discusses the orbit, atmosphere, surface features, and exploration of the planet Venus. AUTHOR: Diane Moser, Kit Moser, Ray Spangenburg
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature 
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 | Arthur & the True Francine by Marc Brown
Arthur's friend, Francine, finds herself in a dilemma--should she protect her new best friend or tell the truth? Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Marc Brown
PUBLISHER: Little Brown Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | How a House Is Built by Gail Gibbons
A nonfiction picture book account of all the work and people involved in building a wood-frame house. Readers will be introduced to the work of architects, surveyors, carpenters, plumbers, and the many others who construct houses. Color illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Gail Gibbons
PUBLISHER: Holiday House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | A Dark Place in the Jungle by Linda Spalding
Follow writer Linda Spalding to Borneo's threatened jungles on the trail of orangutan researcher Birute Galdikas and discover the unholy mix of foreign scientists, government workers, tourists, loggers, descendants of Dayak headhunters, Javanese gold miners, and half-tame orangutans vying for control of the jungle. Galdikas, along with Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall, formed the famed trio of angels Louis Leakey encouraged to study great apes in the wild. In 1971 she went into the jungle to study orangutans and decades later emerged with a run-down empire crumbling around her. Along the way, as poachers and timber barons slaughtered orangutans by the thousands, Galdikas evolved into Ibu, the crusading mother of orphan orangutans, blurring the line between ape and human, tourist and scientist, Eden and everything else. To the orangutans, this was perhaps the cruelest blow of all. Spalding's quest to know this woman takes her from the offices of Galdikas's foundation in Los Angeles to the Sekonyer River in Borneo, where she confronts the sad failure of a woman trying desperately to mother a species to survival; the dangers and temptations of eco-tourism; and the arrogance of our inclination to alter the things we set out to save. AUTHOR: Linda Spalding
PUBLISHER: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | Predators & Prey by Michael Chinery
Description not available.Describes some of the many different animals, from anteaters to the great cats, that prey on other creatures in rainforests. AUTHOR: Michael Chinery
PUBLISHER: Crabtree Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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 | The Audubon Society Pocket Guide to North American Waterfowl by Richard K. Walton, National Audubon Society Staff
Description not available.An assortment of water birds are illustrated in full-color photographs, followed by a brief description of each bird and its habitat AUTHOR: Richard K. Walton, National Audubon Society Staff
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science & Nature
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