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Malorie Blackman (Author)
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Publication Date: 5 Feb 2004

You're thirteen. All you want is a normal life. But most normal kids don't need heart transplants.

So there's this doctor. He says there's a chance for you. But he also says it's experimental, controversial and risky. And it's never been done before.

Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, this is a powerful, thought-provoking story from the award-winning Malorie Blackman.

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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Corgi Childrens (5 Feb 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 055255166X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0552559799
  • Product Dimensions: 13 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 9,813 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Malorie Blackman's brand of weighty, topical novels has proved immensely popular and won her several top book prizes, including the Smarties and Young Telegraph book awards (the latter twice). Her reputation as one of the best and most prolific children's authors writing today is founded on her intelligent handling of contemporary issues of interest and concern to children--Hacker, Thief! and A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E, her first three novels, dealt with time travel and computer hacking.

Pig-Heart Boy picks up another topical issue, that of xenografts or animal organ transplants. Cameron Kelsey has only a few months to live, and is no longer able to play sport, swim or live a normal life in any way. With no suitable human heart donor available, he agrees to try the revolutionary new process and is given a new heart, from a pig.

Through his tribulations he learns about the meaning of friendship, and how much he loves life and doesn't want to let go. This is a cracking read. Malorie Blackman has a particular skill of getting inside the mind of a thirteen year old. Highly recommended. (Ages 8 to 12) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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A powerful story about friendship, loyalty and family around this topical and controversial issue (Guardian )

Engrossing story (Daily Telegraph )

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 )

Great for older readers able to tackle issues (First 20060802)

A bizarre yet strangely realistic book . . . The plot is well developed with many unexpected twists (The Times 20050625)
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars great idea, grippingly told 19 Jan 2003
By A. Craig HALL OF FAME TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Cameron is a boy who loves sport, but a virus has left his heart weak. Increasingly unable to do the things he loves, and with a new baby in the family on the way, he must have a heart transplant. No human donor is available, so he has the choice of having a ground-breaking operation: a pig's heart will replace his own. It may sound weirdly like something out of Snow White, but the operation works, at first, and suddenly he's able to live a normal life again.
Then his best friend's father tells a newspaper, and Cameron has the horror of living with tabloid journalists calling him Pig Heart Boy. How a brave but normal kid copes with this, the possibility of dying and losing his best friend Marlon is described in very readable, fast-paced prose.
My 10 year old daughter read this recently as a class text. It's a terrifically good book, and one of the things we both like about it is that it describes the life of a black family without any of the usual politically correct stuff you so often get. Cameron is just a kid, one whom you get to know and care about a lot. In a quiet way, Blackman is a real revolutionary for insisting on this.
I also thoroughly recommend Blackman's 'Noughts & Crosses' for older readers of 12+ as a brilliant SF novel about a world in which black people rule and white people are the underdogs.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Pig- Heart Boy ? 22 Nov 2012
By Lulu Dreminer
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I think pig heart boy was good and full of information about the life of CAMERON Kelsey,it wasnt a very strong ending just 'the end' you dont know anyting that happens! I mean yes its a good cliff hanger feeling but you need to leave t he reader wanting to know a bit more about the end of the book. So you can imagine the ending for yourself.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking read for young teens 17 Nov 2011
By wombat
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My 12 year old and I both enjoyed Malorie Blackman's book. It lead to some interesting chats about animal rights, the media, identity and trust in friendships. It was interesting without being preachy and kept my son's attention at every page.
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