Pig-Heart Boy

Author: Malorie Blackman
Publisher: Collins Educational
ISBN: 9780003302165
Category : Heart
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Accept a transplant of a pig's heart, or die? That's what Cameron has to decide ... The story: Cameron is offered the chance to have a highly experimental and controversial operation which might save his life. But replacing his heart with one from a pig brings not only medical risk, it places Cameron at the eye of a storm of controversy. Medical ethics, the role of the press and the right to privacy are all brought into vivid focus in this gripping read. Themes: medical ethics; disability; the experience of growing up; animal rights; the individual and society; the media; death. Multicultural Suitable for KS 3/4 (P7-S4)

Pig-heart Boy

Author: Malorie Blackman
Publisher: Transworld Pub
ISBN: 9780552546843
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207

Book Description
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!

Pig Heart Boy

Author: Malorie Blackman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780552567909
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description

Pig-heart Boy

Author: Malorie Blackman
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 055255166X
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Cameron needs a heart transplant, and when a pioneering doctor offers to give him a new heart, from a pig, Cameron knows he has to try – to become the world’s first pig-heart boy.

The Whispering Skull

Author: Jonathan Stroud
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0552568058
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 499

Book Description
"Stroud is a genius' Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series. Ghosts and ghouls beware! London's smallest, shabbiest and most talented psychic detection agency is back. Life is never exactly peaceful for Lockwood & Co. Lucy and George are trying to solve the mystery of the talking skull trapped in their ghost jar, while Lockwood is desperate for an exciting new case. Things seem to be looking up when the team is called to Kensal Green Cemetery to investigate the grave of a sinister Victorian doctor. Strange apparitions have been seen there, and the site must be made safe. As usual, Lockwood is confident; as usual, everything goes wrong a terrible phantom is unleashed, and a dangerous object is stolen from the coffin. Lockwood & Co must recover the relic before its power is unleashed, but it's a race against time. Their obnoxious rivals from the Fittes agency are also on the hunt. And if that's not bad enough, the skull in the ghost-jar is stirring again The author of the blockbuster BARTIMAEUS sequence delivers another humorous and chilling instalment in the critically acclaimed LOCKWOOD & CO. series."

Pighearted

Author: Alex Perry
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316538809
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Charlotte's Web meets My Sister's Keeper in this charming story told from the alternating perspectives of a boy with a fatal heart condition and the pig with the heart that could save his life. Jeremiah’s heart skips a beat before his first soccer game, but it’s not nerves. It’s the first sign of a heart attack. He knows he needs to go to the hospital, but he’s determined to score a goal. Charging after the ball, he refuses to stop…even if his heart does. J6 is a pig and the only one of his five brothers who survived the research lab. Though he's never left his cell, he thinks of himself as a therapy pig, a scholar, and a bodyguard. But when the lab sends him to live with Jeremiah's family, there’s one new title he’s desperate to have: brother. At first, Jeremiah thinks his parents took in J6 to cheer him up. But before long, he begins to suspect there's more to his new curly-tailed companion than meets the eye. When the truth is revealed, Jeremiah and J6 must protect each other at all costs—even if their lives depend on it.

Dead Gorgeous

Author: Malorie Blackman
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407049976
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
When the mysterious stranger shows up at Nova's parents' hotel, she thinks her luck has changed - until she realizes she's the only one who can see him. Liam explains he's been here a long time. And he can never leave, no matter how hard he tries. Soon, Nova begins to piece his tragic story together. But she's hiding a secret of her own - one she's desperate to keep from her family. And now Liam's found her out . . .

Operation Gadgetman!

Author: Malorie Blackman
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446453685
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Beans calls her dad 'Gadgetman' because of the weird and wonderful gadgets he comes up with - everything from exploding biscuits to Spy Kits. But when Gadgetman accidentally invents a device that could be used to steal millions of pounds, the wrong people find out and Gadgetman is kidnapped!With the help of her friends - and her special Gadgetman Spy Kit - Beans is determined to track down the kidnappers and rescue her dad. But can she find Gadgetman before he is forced to hand over the details of his invention...?

Cloud Busting

Author: Malorie Blackman
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448100801
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
Davey is the new boy in class and Sam can't stand him. He thinks Davey is a Grade A moron. But when the two are thrown together Sam discovers that Davey's eccentric way of looking at the world makes life a lot more fun. Until the day something terrible happens... A funny and sad story, told completely in verse.

Thief!

Author: Malorie Blackman
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446453790
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
You're the new girl in school. You're just trying to fit in - and it's not working. Then someone accuses you of theft, and you think things can't get any worse. Until you get caught in a freak storm . . . The next thing you know, you're in the future. Being shot at for being out after curfew. You don't even recognise your hometown. And you're heading for a confrontation from your worst nightmare. What if you could change the past to save the future?