Dori Hillestad Butler

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Fairmont, The United States

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http://www.kidswriter.com

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Dori Hillestad Butler grew up writing, for she had no brothers or sisters to play with until she was eight years old. The first book she published was The Great Tooth Fairy Rip-Off , it took her many years to sell that book, followed by four more picture books. She then started writing YA books short stories have appeared in anthologies entitled, The Green Umbrella and Other Sports Stories (Highlights for Children, 1995) and Not the Only One (Alyson Publications, 1994) and in magazines including Cricket, Spider, Highlights for Children, Children's Digest, Child Life and a variety of Sunday School publications. Dori also writes educational materials, edit stories for www.storydog.com, and has a regular book review coloumn in her l ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 7,949 ratings · 1,362 reviews · 52 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Truth about Truman School 3.74 avg rating — 1,024 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Do You Know the Monkey Man? 4.06 avg rating — 847 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Haunted Library (The Haunted Library #1) by Dori Hillestad Butler, Aurore Damant (Illustrations) 3.92 avg rating — 941 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case of the Lost Boy (The Buddy Files, #1) by Dori Hillestad Butler, Jeremy Tugeau (Illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 870 ratings — published 2010 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King & Kayla and the Case of the Missing Dog Treats (King & Kayla, #1) by Dori Hillestad Butler, Nancy Meyers (Illustrations) 4.07 avg rating — 427 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ghost in the Attic (The Haunted Library #2) by Dori Hillestad Butler, Aurore Damant (Illustrations) 4.19 avg rating — 305 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case of the Library Monster (The Buddy Files, #5) by Dori Hillestad Butler, Jeremy Tugeau (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case of the Mixed-Up Mutts (The Buddy Files, #2) by Dori Hillestad Butler, Jeremy Tugeau (Illustrator) 4.22 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 2010 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case of the Missing Family (The Buddy Files, #3) by Dori Hillestad Butler, Jeremy Tugeau (Illustrator) 4.23 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yes, I Know the Monkey Man 4.07 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Dori Hillestad Butler

The Haunted Library (10 books)
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Aurore Damant (Illustrations)

4.09 avg rating — 2,410 ratings

Buddy Files (6 books)
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Jeremy Tugeau (Illustrator)

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King & Kayla (6 books)
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Nancy Meyers (Contributor)

4.03 avg rating — 1,038 ratings

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Quotes by Dori Hillestad Butler

“The person you are when no one's looking, or when no one else knows who you are...that's the person you really are!”
― Dori Hillestad Butler, The Truth about Truman School

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“I'd much rather have a brain of my own than be popular.”
― Dori Hillestad Butler, The Truth about Truman School

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“We always know more than we think we do. The problem is we don't always know what we know.”
― Dori Butler, The Case of the Mixed-Up Mutts

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