| Jip, His Story | |
| Author: | Katherine Paterson |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Dutton Juvenile |
| Release Date: | October 24, 1996 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages: | 192 pp (hardcover edition) |
| Isbn: | 978-0-575-06399-0 |
| Isbn Note: | (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]