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
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKISBN: 9780552551663Number of pages: 256Weight: 181 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
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A powerful story about friendship,loyalty and family around this topical and controversial issueAn engrossing storyA sensitive and informative story that provides a vivid insightinto transgenics and xenotransplantations and still manages to squeezein the inevitable guinea-pig and piggy in the middle jokesMany unexpected twists
Malorie Blackman
An award-winning British author and dramatist,Malorie Blackman is a major voice in children's publishing,holding the post of Waterstones Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She is best-known for her bestselling novels Noughts & Crosses series as well as Pig Heart Boy,Thief, Cloud Busting,Boys Don't Cry and Chasing the Stars. The fifth novel in the Noughts & Crosses series,Crossfire,will be published in August 2019.
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