Jess: The Border Collie Books in Order
Jess: The Border Collie contains 9 books, published between 1998 and 2000. The first book is The Challenge (1998) and the newest is The Promise (2000). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 9
- Published
- 1998–2000
- Total pages
- 1,263 across 9 books
- Reading time
- 21–32 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,263 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute.
Jess: The Border Collie is a children's series credited to Lucy Daniels, with Ben M. Baglio named on two of the 9 books. Jess is recorded as a fictitious character, a border collie, and the subjects cover farm life, rescues, human-animal relationships, missing children and deafness in children. Every title is a single noun with the definite article, from The Challenge (1998) to The Promise (2000). The nine volumes total 1,263 pages, a median of 139 each.
How many Jess: The Border Collie books are there?
Jess: The Border Collie has 9 books, released between 1998 and 2000.
Jess: The Border Collie Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 9 Jess: The Border Collie books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1The Challenge1998 · 140 pages · confirmed 1/419981401/4
- 2The Arrival1998 · 137 pages · confirmed 1/419981371/4
- 3The Runaway1998 · 139 pages · confirmed 1/419981391/4
- 4The Sacrifice1999 · 139 pages · confirmed 1/419991391/4
- 5The Homecoming1999 · 137 pages · confirmed 1/419991371/4
- 6The Betrayal1999 · 139 pages · confirmed 1/419991391/4
- 7The Discovery2000 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/420001441/4
- 8The Gift2000 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/420001441/4
- 9The Promise2000 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/420001441/4
Do you have to read Jess: The Border Collie books in order?
You should read the Jess: The Border Collie books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Jess: The Border Collie book also stands alone.
Where to start with Jess: The Border Collie
Start with The Challenge (1998), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Jess: The Border Collie book?
The Promise (2000) is the newest Jess: The Border Collie book released so far.
Is there a new Jess: The Border Collie book coming?
No next Jess: The Border Collie book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Jess: The Border Collie at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Jess: The Border Collie title on record dates from 2000, 26 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Jess: The Border Collie books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 1,263 pages across all 9 books with a recorded length, a median of 139 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Jess: The Border Collie books, 6 of 9, were published in the 1990s.
- Attribution
- Of the 9 titles, 7 are credited to Lucy Daniels and 2 to Ben M. Baglio.
What the Jess: The Border Collie books are about
All 9 Jess: The Border Collie books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: border collie is tagged on 6 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Border collie 6 of 9 books
- Dogs 6 of 9 books
- Children's fiction 6 of 9 books
- Farm life 4 of 9 books
- Jess (Fictitious character) 3 of 9 books
- Farms 2 of 9 books
- Jess (Fictitious character : Daniels) 2 of 9 books
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