Books with author Anna Alden-Tirrill

In book three of the series, Annie's family moves to Paris, France where her father is teaching at the Sorbonne University and mother is working at home for a publishing house. When Annie visits the famous Louvre Art Museum, she discovers, quite by accident, a gang of art thieves stealing a priceless painting. After telling the curator of the gallery and the police, one of the criminals is caught. After Annie agrees to testify against the criminal, the rest of the gang calls her home to threaten her with kidnapping and slavery in Saudi Arabia if she testifies. After her family hires a s security firm, they assign a young bodyguard named Michel to protect her, along with a security team. Will Michel and his team be enough to protect her, or is Annie destined to be a slave in Saudi Arabia? Read and find out.

Join thirteen-year-old Annie as she finally returns to the United States. Now in New England, she studies the settlement of America's first colonies based on freedom of religion and the American Revolution based on escaping England's unjust rule. Annie serves as a positive role model for middle school and young adult readers, asking questions that need the answers provided by her parents and others. The fictional settings and circumstances contain interesting segues into history lessons that make them unforgettable and fun to learn. In this adventure, homeschooled Annie's history lessons spark her interest so strongly that she starts dreaming she is back in colonial America and meets Priscilla Mullins, a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620. She has several more dreams, moving ahead a generation in time with each one, and learning things that meld with reality, until she begins to feel these are spiritual dreams designed to lead her somewhere God wants her to go. New information results in her traveling to Europe again in search of a piece of historic jewelry that's tied to an ancient treasure with biblical connections. She once again flirts with danger as she follows her leading to locate this item and return it to its rightful owner with the help of her family. In this book, Annie learns the importance of courage and trusting God to guide her so she can accomplish what she feels is a special mission. And to her great delight, she finds out that God has brought her through an adventure that leads right back to her own family!

Join thirteen-year old Annie as she excitedly becomes a journalist intern and is caught up in an international espionage plot on the French Riviera. Annie learns once again to trust her parents' judgment, as the entire family asks God to help them live their lives and to stay safe. This story points out how important it is to seek, speak, and always stand up for the truth, both personally and in one's career, while trusting God and seeking to follow His will. Annie loves being homeschooled and this adventure gets her school credit for a new adventure that brings old friends back into her life and makes her new friends while teaching her about a future career and some of the history and politics of France, Spain, Italy, Monaco, and Liechtenstein. Then, as an adopted child, she also learns some unexpected new information about her birth family that brings her and her adoptive parents much joy.

Join thirteen-year old Annie as she moves to Scotland with her adoptive parents and finds out she has another family associated with her birth parents who live in Scotland, revealing unexpected new information about her Scottish roots. Annie's homeschooling continues to provide unique learning adventures that get her school credit and bring old friends back into her life. Best of all, she learns about Scottish history, language, and culture, as well as new skills that could help her in her adult career. She also learns a lot about American history, including all of the founding father's important documents. Annie's father's job and research there open a door for her and her parents to make some big decisions to get involved in a high-technology experiment with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Once again she is brave and courageous and trusts God to lead her and give her wisdom. Her entire family asks God to help them make choices that affect not only their lives, but possibly the lives of every- one in the free world.

Join thirteen-year-old Annie in her new adventure as she and her family move to Australia where her dad has a college teaching position in Sydney. Annie's mother matches her homeschool curriculum in Australia to continue to provide unique learning and travel experiences designed to get Annie school credit. In this adventure, she barely settles in "Down Under," when the arrival of an unexpected gift suddenly changes what looked to be a quiet year of study. She now begins a whirlwind trip to Europe and Israel and back again, involving chaperoning and protecting some recently unearthed historic relics from the days of Jesus, while dodging some shadowy figures bent on antiquities theft. Annie and her companions are led through a serious exercise of discovering God's will for their lives as they pray for protection and guidance to get safely where He wants them to be. Through a number of unexpected destination twists and some suspenseful surprises, their time in Israel is both risky and fun, as they play the part of tourists and guardians of some valuable ancient artifacts. As always, they keep their consistent morning Bible study and prayer time, which ultimately results in a successful mission and a huge blessing for her entire family as they determine to find out and follow what God has in mind for them on this trip to His Holy City. In this book, Annie learns the importance of love-for God, for family, and for friends, as well as the importance of seeking God's will and holding tightly to His truths.

In this new adventure, Annie's family once again moves from one European country to another for her dad's job with NASA. After being an Exchange Professor at Paisley University in Scotland, he has now taken a teaching position at the University of Munich in Germany. The family settles in Bavaria in the little town of Oberammergau, and Annie and her mom start seeking out the history of the area to continue to expand Annie's homeschool history lessons. While Christmas shopping in the village for some local handicrafts, Annie finds an interesting locked box that may solve a seventy-three-year-old mystery and link her to more of her birth relatives. She and her family stumble upon a previously lost secret diary narrating some heart-wrenching details of family and social issues in the history of Oberammergau and the bravery and courage of the villagers during WW II, as well as exposing several historic relics that Annie and her family are determined to investigate. The plot takes several unusual twists that include a historic godly king and his generous gifts intended to help the village that are later used to save the lives of many people and thwart a terrible disaster. Annie learns some hard history lessons and then participates in a serious modern-day caper that separates myth from truth and prevents a possible future problem with people in Germany and worldwide. In this book, Annie learns the importance of Commitment-to God, family, and friends-and perseverance in following God and His Word.

My Paris Connection In book three of the series, Annie's family moves to Paris, France where her father is teaching at the Sorbonne University and mother is working at home for a publishing house. When Annie visits the famous Louvre Art Museum, she discovers, quite by accident, a gang of art thieves stealing a priceless painting. After telling the curator of the gallery and the police, one of the criminals is caught.... Full description

Join thirteen-year-old Annie as she finally returns to the United States. Now in New England, she studies the settlement of America's first colonies based on freedom of religion and the American Revolution based on escaping England's unjust rule. Annie serves as a positive role model for middle school and young adult readers, asking questions that need the answers provided by her parents and others. The fictional settings and circumstances contain interesting segues into history lessons that make them unforgettable and fun to learn. In this adventure, homeschooled Annie's history lessons spark her interest so strongly that she starts dreaming she is back in colonial America and meets Priscilla Mullins, a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620. She has several more dreams, moving ahead a generation in time with each one, and learning things that meld with reality, until she begins to feel these are spiritual dreams designed to lead her somewhere God wants her to go. New information results

Join thirteen-year old Annie as she moves to Scotland with her adoptive parents and finds out she has another family associated with her birth parents who live in Scotland, revealing unexpected new information about her Scottish roots. Annie's homeschooling continues to provide unique learning adventures that get her school credit and bring old friends back into her life. Best of all, she learns about Scottish history, language, and culture, as well as new skills that could help her in her adult career. She also learns a lot about American history, including all of the founding father's important documents. Annie's father's job and research there open a door for her and her parents to make some big decisions to get involved in a high-technology experiment with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Once again she is brave and courageous and trusts God to lead her and give her wisdom. Her entire family asks God to help them make choices that affect not only their lives, but possibly the lives of every- one in the free world.

Join thirteen-year old Annie as she excitedly becomes a journalist intern and is caught up in an international espionage plot on the French Riviera. Annie learns once again to trust her parents' judgment, as the entire family asks God to help them live their lives and to stay safe. This story points out how important it is to seek, speak, and always stand up for the truth, both personally and in one's career, while trusting God and seeking to follow His will. Annie loves being homeschooled and this adventure gets her school credit for a new adventure that brings old friends back into her life and makes her new friends while teaching her about a future career and some of the history and politics of France, Spain, Italy, Monaco, and Liechtenstein. Then, as an adopted child, she also learns some unexpected new information about her birth family that brings her and her adoptive parents much joy.