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Pig-Heart Boy

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Cameron is 13 years old and desperately in need of a heart transplant, when a pioneering doctor approaches his family with a startling proposal. He can give Cameron a new heart – not from a human, but from a pig!

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SKU: 9780241777459 Category: Pretty Books Tags: Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories, Children's / Teenage fiction: Science fiction, Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Body & health
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Celebrating 85 years of Sparking Imaginations

A beautiful clothbound edition of the much-loved modern classic Pig-Heart Boy. Bound in real cloth with two coloured foils and sprayed coloured edges, this deluxe edition is a perfect gift or collector’s item. Part of an eight book set published to mark the 85th anniversary of Puffin Books, this edition has a brand-new foreword from Adam Kay.

All Cameron wants is a ‘normal’ life – friends, swimming, school, family.

But most normal thirteen-year-olds don’t desperately need a new heart because theirs doesn’t work properly.

One doctor offers hope. Cameron could – if he and his parents agree – take part in a radical and controversial procedure involving the transplant of a pig’s heart into his human body. It’s risky. And it’s never been done before . . .

While Cameron comes to terms with the idea, he finds the world around him is much, much less accepting. But surely everyone will understand that it’s better to have a pig’s heart that works than a human heart that doesn’t – won’t they . . .?

Collect all eight titles in the Puffin Clothbound 85th Anniversary Collection

  • THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER by Jacqueline Wilson with a foreword by Beth Lincoln
  • DIARY OF A WIMPY KID by Jeff Kinney with a foreword by Dapo Adeola
  • CHARLOTTE’S WEB by E.B. White with a foreword by Jordan Lees
  • MATILDA by Roald Dahl with a foreword by Robin Stevens
  • THE EXTREMELY EMBARRASSING LIFE OF LOTTIE BROOKS by Katie Kirby with a foreword by Nadia Shireen
  • PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF by Rick Riordan with a foreword by Nazneen Ahmed Pathak
  • PIG-HEART BOY by Malorie Blackman with a foreword by Adam Kay
  • WONDER by R.J. Palacio with a foreword by Tom Fletcher

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Weight 0.308 kg
Dimensions 20.5 × 13.6 × 2.5 cm
Author

Blackman, Malorie

Publisher

Puffin

Imprint

Puffin

Cover

Hardback

Pages

256

Language

English

Edition

|Reprint

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J

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