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.

[1] In 2005, the book was turned into a musical by Danny Duncan and Emily Klion and performed at The Marsh.