Jip, His Story

First edition
Author	Katherine Paterson
Language	English
Genre	Children's Historical novel
Publisher	Dutton Juvenile
Publication date	October 24, 1996
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print ( Hardcover)
Pages	192 pp (hardcover edition)
ISBN	978-0-575-06399-0 (hardback edition)
OCLC	36122563

Jip, His Story is a 1996 children's book written by American novelist Katherine Paterson. Set in Vermont during the 1850s, it focuses on a 12-year-old orphan named Jip, who was abandoned as an infant and mistaken for a gypsy because of his skin color. Jip works at a poor farm where mentally ill residents are housed. Jip discovers that he is the part-black child of an escaped slave, and that he has been claimed as the property of a slave-owning farmer.

Jip, His Story, won the 1997 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. ^[1] In 2005, the book was turned into a musical by Danny Duncan and Emily Klion and performed at The Marsh. This adaptation won the 2008 American Harmony Prize. ^[2]

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