Pig-Heart Boy
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
A powerful story about friendship, loyalty and family around this topical and controversial issue' - Guardian
'An engrossing story' - Daily Telegraph
'That's all I ever did - watch and listen. I was always a spectator, never a participant. I didn't call that living. I was alive - but that was all.'
Cameron is thirteen, and all he wants is a 'normal' life - friends, swimming, school, family.
But his life is far from normal. Not every thirteen-year-old desperately needs a new heart because theirs doesn't work properly.
Finally, 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 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 . . .?
'A sensitive and informative story that provides a vivid insight into transgenics and xenotransplantations and still manages to squeeze in the inevitable guinea-pig and piggy in the middle jokes' - Independent
Customer Reviews
Short… but lasts a while!
Amazing topic, I just love how it’s wrote 9/10 you’ll get hooked on this book!
Cool Book
This book was our class book last year (year 5)
and it was pretty cool. (At the time of writing this I have one week left until the holidays end and I go into year 6).
Pig Heart Boy =**
I absolutely loved this book and would not put it down
Such a thriller it gets you hooked with just one look at the title..... C C-S