# Pig-Heart Boy

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- Book: [Pig-Heart Boy](https://www.bookquiver.com/malorie-blackman/pig-heart-boy) ([Pig-Heart Boy.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/malorie-blackman/pig-heart-boy.md))
- Authors: [Malorie Blackman](https://www.bookquiver.com/malorie-blackman)
- Publisher: Corgi Childrens
- ISBN: 978-05-5255-166-3
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2022-06-09
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 . . .?