Jip, His Story

Katherine Paterson First published 1996

About this book

While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.

Subjects

african americans
african americans, fiction
african americans, history, fiction
children's fiction
fiction
fugitive slaves
identity
identity, fiction
identity (philosophical concept)
juvenile fiction
slavery
slavery, fiction
united states, history, 1815-1861, fiction