Pig-heart Boy [TV tie-in Version]

Pig-heart Boy [TV tie-in Version]

by Malorie Blackman (Author)

Synopsis

Cameron is 13 years old 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 - not from a human, but from a pig!

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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Corgi Childrens
Published: 02 Dec 1999

ISBN 10: 0552546844
ISBN 13: 9780552546843
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
Book Overview: Malorie Blackman has won several awards for her writing, including the WHSmith Mind-Boggling Books Award, The Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award and The Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award.
Prizes: Shortlisted for Carnegie Medal 1998 and LA Carnegie Medal 1998.

Author Bio
Malorie Blackman worked as a database manager and systems programmer before becoming a full-time writer. Her reputation has steadily grown and she has been awarded a number of prizes including the WHSmith's Mind-Boggling Books Award and the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 award for HACKER, the Young Telegraph/Fully Booked award for THIEF! and, more recently, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for PIG-HEART BOY. She was voted Voice/Excel Children's Writer of the Year in 1997. Her novel NOUGHTS AND CROSSES has won both the Children's Book Award and the Lancashire Children's Book Award 2002. THE TIMES recently described her as 'a bit of a national treasure.'