Jip, His Story
1996 children's book by Katherine Paterson
978-0-575-06399-0 (hardback edition)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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Novels by Katherine Paterson
- The Sign of the Chrysanthemum (1973)
- Of Nightingales That Weep (1974)
- The Master Puppeteer (1975)
- Bridge to Terabithia (1977)
- The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978)
- Jacob Have I Loved (1980)
- Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom (1983)
- Come Sing, Jimmy Jo (1985)
- Park's Quest (1988)
- Lyddie (1991)
- Flip-Flop Girl (1994)
- Jip, His Story (1996)
- Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight (1998)
- Preacher's Boy (1999)
- The Same Stuff as Stars (2002)
- Bread and Roses, Too (2006)
- The Day of the Pelican (2009)
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