Wren Blackberry

A children's fiction author, Wren Blackberry emerged with the publication of the Métrico Mesh series. Much of her work attempts to incorporate educational curriculum standards, lightly touching on several scientific and historical subjects. A teacher by trade, Wren Blackberry worked in higher education in the United States from 1985 on. In education, a curriculum (plural curricula) is the set of courses and their contents offered by an institution such as a school or university. ...

The Métrico Mesh Series

The protagonists in this series are American Portuguese pre-teens, residing in a coastal town of southern Massachusetts. While the original text is in English, the characters do not neglect to scatter in Português phrases and customs. Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: Bay State Other U.S. States Capital Boston Largest city Boston Governor Mitt Romney (R) Senators Edward Kennedy (D) John Kerry (D) Official languages English Area 27,360 km² (44th)  - Land 20,317 km²  - Water 7,043 km² (25. ...

The books appear Judeo-Christian, with solely Christian references only in Anything But Static, which parallels the New Testament conversion of the apostle Paul. The series is directed toward independent middle readers, throwing in challenging words similar to terms students would learn at school. Judeo-Christian (also spelled Judaeo-Christian) is a term used to describe the body of concepts and values which are thought to be held in common by Christianity and Judaism, and typically considered a fundamental basis for Western legal codes and moral values. ...

Books by Wren Blackberry

Under the Grass pulls science into the description of dragons in Job 40-41. Jeff Métrico struggles to understand dragons, and explain what he has found, parallels the social rejection of Job. ISBN 1411625307 This article deals with dragons as dealt with in The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, a series of novels by Patricia Wrede. ...

Levitical Day. Jacquie Métrico uses information from Leviticus 19 to rescue her friends from fungal disaster. ISBN 1411628160

Deep Echoes to Deep. Jeff Métrico returns to the scene of the dragon with a film crew, not suspecting that they would desert him. His cave wanderings parallel David's escape from King Saul, with references to Psalm 42. ISBN 1411640004

Anything But Static. Emotions charge as a new boy visits Sunday school class and tries to set everyone straight. The book discusses electricity, lightning, and the struggle the early church experienced in accepting the zealous Saul as the converted apostle Paul of Acts 9.

Math Fiction. Jeff Métrico was not a natural born leader, but found himself in charge of two hundred kids in a blackout. He used mathematical principles of fractals and statistics and Numbers 10 {Moses} to organize people and maintain sanity. A fractal is a geometric object which can be divided into parts, each of which is similar to the original object. ... Jump to: navigation, search Statistics is a type of data analysis which practice includes the planning, summarizing, and interpreting of observations of a system possibly followed by predicting or forecasting of future events based on a mathematical model of the system being observed. ... Jump to: navigation, search Moses or Móshe (מֹשֶׁה, Standard Hebrew Móše, Tiberian Hebrew Mōšeh, Arabic موسى Musa), son of Amram and his wife, Jochebed, a Levite. ...

References

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