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Jip, His Story

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Jip, His Story
First edition
AuthorKatherine Paterson
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren's Historical novel
PublisherDutton Juvenile
Publication date
October 24, 1996
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages192 pp (hardcover edition)
ISBN978-0-575-06399-0 (hardback edition)
OCLC36122563

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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