Pig-Heart Boy Award-winning by Malorie Blackman (author)

Malorie Blackman’s poignant and thought-provoking award-winner. Cameron is thirteen and his heart is failing. He needs a heart transplant – fast. Then a pioneering doctor approaches his family with a startling proposal. He can give Cameron a new heart: a heart from a pig. It’s a weird idea. But Cameron is fed up with sitting on life’s sidelines, unable to play sport or swim. He has to give it a try – even if it means becoming the world’s first pig-heart boy.

Soon Cameron is discovering how great it feels to live a normal life. But there are some people who don’t think it’s normal for a boy to have a pig’s heart. Will Cameron’s new life last long enough for him to discover what it’s really all about? Shocking, original and moving, this is the remarkable story of a boy learning who he really is, while going where no one has ever gone before.

Also available: Read and Respond activities to accompany Pig-Heart Boy.

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780552551663

Publisher

Corgi Childrens

Date published

February 5th, 2004

Lexile measure

HL600L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 4.3; Middle years; 8.0 points

Other details

208 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman has written over fifty books and is acknowledged as one of today’s most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. Her best-loved books include the highly acclaimed Noughts and Crosses sequence and Pig Heart Boy, which also became a major BBC TV series. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her work, including the Red House Children’s Book Award, and has also been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. In 2005 she was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her contribution to children’s books, and in 2008 she received an OBE for her services to children’s literature. She has been described by The Times as ‘a national treasure’ and was the Children’s Laureate 2013-15.

Activities & resources

Reviews

Sara
on 10 January 2012

Pig heart boy

Pig Heart Boy is about a boy called Cameron at the age of thirteen ,he has very less days to live as he is in a very big need for a heart transplantation but unlikely there are no human donors so his Doctor Dr Bryce has a heart in the end but not one from a human but from a PIG!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cameron has the choice to choose if he wants the heart and live for more time or not and live for a couple of weeks ,he has to choose.DOES HE OR DOSEN’T HE?????(i wont spoil it for you). READ THE BOOK AND FIND OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 out of 5
hannah
on 22 March 2010

good

book really good and can be used for interesting activites

5 out of 5
Holly Woodman
on 11 November 2009

Pig heart boy

I like the story so much i could read it more times then ever if i wanted to + i like the way malorie use itlics in the story and i think you would injoy reading it and It is about a boy called camron and he is going to have a heart plantion and he is in the newspaper. I CAN'T SPROLLE IT FOR U.SO BYE-BYE

5 out of 5
Rishana
on 28 October 2009

Pig Heart Boy

Pig Heart Boy is about a boy called Cameron at the age of thirteen ,he has very less days to live as he is in a very big need for a heart transplantation but unlikely there are no human donors so his Doctor Dr Bryce has a heart in the end but not one from a human but from a PIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cameron has the choice to choose if he wants the heart and live for more time or not and live for a couple of weeks ,he has to choose.DOES HE OR DOSEN'T HE?????????????(i wont spoil it for you).
READ THE BOOK AND FIND OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 out of 5