Jip, His Story

Jip, His Story
	First edition
Author	Katherine Paterson
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Children's Historical novel
Publisher	Dutton Juvenile
Publication date	October 24, 1996
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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[1] “The Publisher Connection,” The ALAN Review, Spring 1997

[2] “Miles Johnson Stars in 'Jip: Hist Story' with Curtain Call,” BroadwayWorld.com, February 5, 2008

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