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Pig-Heart Boy

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  • ASIN ‏ : β€ŽΒ 055255166X
  • Publisher ‏ : β€ŽΒ Corgi Childrens; 32nd edition (5 Feb. 2004)
  • Language ‏ : β€ŽΒ English
  • Paperback ‏ : β€ŽΒ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : β€ŽΒ 0552559792
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : β€ŽΒ 978-0552555616
  • Reading age ‏ : β€ŽΒ 9 - 12 years, from customers
  • Dimensions ‏ : β€ŽΒ 12.9 x 1.6 x 19.8 cm

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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

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