Pig-Heart Boy
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Fiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
Age Range: Middle Grade
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780241777459
Description of Pig-Heart Boy
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 …?
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