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Pig-Heart Boy

The beloved modern classic from the award-winning author

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Pig-Heart Boy

By: Malorie Blackman
Narrated by: Patrick Robinson
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I am drowning in this roaring silence. I am drowning. I'm going to die . . . Cameron is thirteen and desperately in need of a heart transplant when a pioneering doctor approaches his family with a startling proposal. He can give Cameron a new heart - but not one from a human, one from a pig. It's never been done before. It's experimental, risky and very controversial. But Cameron is fed up with just sitting on the side of life, always watching and never doing. He has to try - to become the world's first pig-heart boy. Caribbean Creators Fiction Growing Up Growing Up & Facts of Life Literature & Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Science Fiction
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I liked the book but I don't think it us suitable for year 5 or under due to the strong themes. Year 6 would like it. it is certainly an emotive subject, well written.

Interesting storyline

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A really lovely book, although a little sad and tense in places. My 9 year old daughter was reading it as a class book. She asked if we could get it on audible. We both listened and thought it was really good.

Lovely

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Loved it, nicely narrated, thought provoking. Loved the characters. Great vocabulary, The main character was too young to go through all that.,

Keeps you all the way through; engaged

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It brought back memories of Mr Davidson making us read this in our English lessons in year 7 it really brought a test to my eye

Just like we read at school

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Loved the first hand account of dealing with life changing situations.
A great way to open your children’s minds to coping with difficulties in life from a teenagers perspective

Empathy

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