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1927
- American Girl (September, 1927) "Jo Ann and the Princess"
 A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Illustrations by John Held, Jr. p 16-18, 33-34. [HARPER]
1928
- American Girl (August, 1928) "Gull Ledge" A story. Three illustrations by Walter Stewart. This is an American Girl "Made-to-Order" story, custom-written to the suggestions of one of the readers. p 7-9, 31, 34. [HARPER]
- _____ (December, 1928) "Jo Ann and the Joop" A story. Illustrated by Garrett Price. p 16-18, 44. [HARPER]
1929
- American Girl (February, 1929) "Jo Ann and the Lamb" A story. Illustrations by Garrett Price. p 10-12, 33-34. [HARPER]
- _____ (June, 1929) "Jo Ann and the Jokes" A story. Illustrations by Garrett Price. p 12-14, 44-45. [HARPER]
- _____ (September, 1929) "Jo Ann's Haunted House" A story. Illustrations by Garrett Price. p 10-12, 38-39. [HARPER]
- _____ (December, 1929) "Jo Ann and Santa Claus" A story. Illustrations by Garrett Price. p 14-16, 38, 40. [HARPER]
1930
- American Girl (April, 1930) "Jo Ann and April Fool" A story. Illustrated by Garrett Price. p 9-11, 37-39. [HARPER]
- _____ (June, 1930) "Jo Ann and the Sense of Humor" A story. Illustrated by Garrett Price. p 12-14, 34. [HARPER]
- _____ (November, 1930) "Jo Ann and the Bird" A story. Illustrated by Garrett Price. "Jo Ann's eyes glittered as she saw the red head of Tommy Bassick, she uttered a shrill war cry and leaped forward, and after her came the war-whooping Wilmot Indians." p 14-16, 40-42. [HARPER]
1931
- American Girl (January, 1931) "Jo Ann and the Good Resolution" A story. Illustrations by Garrett Price. p 14-16, 32. [HARPER]
- _____ (January, 1931) "Introducing Some 'American Girl' Authors and Artists" This article has short profiles of regular contributors to The American Girl, including Butler (with a photograph). p 26-27. [EPBLIB]
- _____ (April, 1931) "Jo Ann and the Garden" A story. Illustrated by Garrett Price. p 14-16, 34. [HARPER]
- _____ (June, 1931) "Jo Ann and the Pup!" A story. Illustrated by Garrett Price. "'Go back there --- I'm coming across,' Jo Ann shouted. 'Back up yourself,' Tommy said, 'I was here first.'" p 16-18, 30. [HARPER]
- _____ (September, 1931) "Jo Ann and the Last Straw" A story. Illustrations by Garrett Price. p14-16, 32-33. [HARPER]
- _____ (December, 1931) "Jo Ann's Christmas Mystery" A story. Part One of Two. Illustrations by Garrett Price. p 14-16, 36-37. [HARPER]
1932
- American Girl (January, 1932) "Jo Ann's Christmas Mystery" A story. Part Two of Two. Illustrated by Garrett Price. "A new adventure of the inimitable Jo Ann comes to an end in this second part of a two-part story." p 22-4, 34-5. [HARPER]
- _____ (April, 1932) "Jo Ann Cleans House" A story. Illustrated by Garrett Price. "It was Easter vacation and as the taxicab came to a stop before Jo Ann's house she threw her arms around Julia Wickham and gave her a big hug." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 18-20, 31-32. [HARPER]
- _____ (April, 1932) "Who's Who In This Issue" A short biography of the author, with a photograph. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 54. [EPBLIB]
- _____ (August, 1932) "Jo Ann's Musketeers" A story. Illustrated by Garrett Price. "Jo Ann faced Benny Little and threw the ball." p 16-18, 38. [HARPER]
- _____ (November, 1932) "Jo Ann's Bandit" A story. Illustrated by Garrett Price. "For a moment Jo Ann was petrified by fear. Her first thought was that she would run upstairs and hide." p 16-18, 34-36. [HARPER]
1933
- American Girl (February, 1933) "Jo Ann's Drama" A story. Illustrated by Garrett Price. "Always I like to see young peoples having a good time." p 12-14, 38-39. [HARPER]
1934
- American Girl (April, 1934) "The Detective Club" A Betty Bliss story. Illustrated by Leslie Turner. "Betty Bliss has an idea which is destined to make history in Westcote, the town where she and her best friends live." p 8-10, 46, 48. [HARPER]
- _____ (May, 1934) "The Stolen Mascot" A Betty Bliss story. "Betty Bliss of the Tenth Street Yard Detectives follows a complicated clue." Illustrations by Leslie Turner. p 11-13, 42-43. [HARPER]
- _____ (September, 1934) "The Flat-Tire Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. Illustrations by Leslie Turner. "The boys always laughed at the 'Tenth Street Yard Detective Club,' but when Superintendent Betty Bliss found a real crime, they did their best to help." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 20-22, 44-45. [HARPER]
1935
- American Girl (January, 1935) "The Boiled Ham Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "Betty Bliss and the Detective Club are called in to work on a burglary which baffles the police." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 16-18, 32. [HARPER]
- _____ (March, 1935) "The White Rabbit Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "There wasn't a crime in the neighborhood for the Detective Club to solve till Art's rabbits vanished." Illustrations by Leslie Turner. p 16-18, 42-43. [HARPER]
- _____ (August, 1935) "The Thirty-Nine Dimes Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "The Detective Club goes sleuthing once again and enables innocence to triumph." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 5-8, 45. [HARPER]
1936
- American Girl (August, 1936) "The Red Hand Bag Mystery" A story. Illustrated by Leslie Turner. "Will Betty Bliss and the Detective Club solve this baffling new riddle?" Volume 19. Number 8. p18-19, 38-39. [HARPER]
- _____ (September, 1936) "The Goldfish Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "Betty Bliss's Detective Club is called upon to solve a new mystery with a curious quirk in it." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 21-22, 45-46. [HARPER]
- _____ (November, 1936) "The White Blackbird Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "Betty Bliss's Detective Club is faced with a new and baffling mystery which calls forth all of their ingenuity and skill before a solution is reached." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 19-20, 39, 42-3. [HARPER]
1937
- American Girl (April, 1937) "The Hurry-Up Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "The Detective Club once again relies on Betty Bliss's quick eye for a solution." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 17-19, 39, 41-3. [CHAPIN, HARPER]
- _____ (May, 1937) "The Red Avengers' Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "A missing dog and a ransom note keep Betty Bliss and the Detective Club busy trying to solve." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 18-9, 49-50. [CHAPIN, HARPER]
1938
- American Girl (March, 1938) "The Locked Drawer Mystery" A story. "Betty Bliss and her fellow detectives solve their last case -- an announcement that causes the Editors of The American Girl sorrow and regret, for the death, last September, of Ellis Parker Butler will be a real and continuing loss to all readers of the magazine." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 6-13, 24-31. [HARPER]
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