Cover of Pig-Heart Boy

Pig-Heart Boy

by Unknown Author

256 pages2025Penguin Books, LimitedISBN 9780241777459
FictionNonfictionChildren'sHealthScience Fiction

About this book

Celebrating 85 years of Sparking Imaginations A beautiful clothbound edition of the much-loved modern classic Pig-Heart Boy. Bound in real cloth with two coloured foils and sprayed coloured edges, this deluxe edition is a perfect gift or collector's item. Part of an eight book set published to mark the 85th anniversary of Puffin Books, this edition has a brand-new foreword from Adam Kay. 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 . . .? Collect all eight titles in the Puffin Clothbound 85th Anniversary Collection THE STORY OF TRACY BEAKER by Jacqueline Wilson with a foreword by Beth Lincoln DIARY OF A WIMPY KID by Jeff Kinney with a foreword by Dapo Adeola CHARLOTTE'S WEB by E.B. White with a foreword by Jordan Lees MATILDA by Roald Dahl with a foreword by Robin Stevens THE EXTREMELY EMBARRASSING LIFE OF LOTTIE BROOKS by Katie Kirby with a foreword by Nadia Shireen PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS- THE LIGHTNING THIEF by Rick Riordan with a foreword by Nazneen Ahmed Pathak PIG-HEART BOY by Malorie Blackman with a foreword by Adam Kay WONDER by R.J. Palacio with a foreword by Tom Fletcher

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited
Published
2025
Pages
256
ISBN
9780241777459
Language
en

About Unknown Author

Malorie Blackman OBE is a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She primarily writes literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series uses the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism. Blackman has been the recipient of many honours for her work including, most recently, the 2022 PEN Pinter Prize.

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