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Kingsley, Carolyn O’Neal

Mary Woodbury

November 13, 2015

In Kingsley, Carolyn O’Neal explores the frightening result of decades of toxins in the environment through the life of a fourteen year old boy named Kingsley Smith.

Kingsley is a sweet boy, but he’s too fat to wear swim trunks and too poor to play golf. After colony collapse disorder finishes off the bees, a dangerous and mysterious pandemic emerges and attacks anyone and anything with a Y-Chromosome, both human and animal. Kingsley has more to lose than video games and the attention of the girl he loves. His mother believes millions of dollars in research can save her son, and she’ll lie, steal and worse to get it. But not everyone mourns the loss of the men. Can an unscrupulous mother and a spirited girl save the last boy on earth?

Carolyn O’Neal is an environmentalist and a storyteller. Her eco-fiction Silent Grace won The Hook’s 2013 Short Story contest, judged by bestselling author John Grisham. She volunteers for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Virginia Oyster Shell Recycling Program. Carolyn was born three blocks from the Chesapeake Bay in Norfolk, Virginia. She currently resides in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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4.3 rating based on 29 ratings (all editions)

ISBN-10: 0996687815
ISBN-13: 9780996687812
Goodreads: 26867563

Author(s):
Carolyn O'Neal
Publisher: Carolyn O'Neal
Published: 11/1/2015

In KINGSLEY, Carolyn O’Neal explores the frightening result of decades of toxins in the environment through the life of a fourteen year old boy named Kingsley Smith.

Kingsley is a sweet boy, but he’s too fat to wear swim trunks and too poor to play golf. After colony collapse disorder finishes off the bees, a dangerous and mysterious pandemic emerges and attacks anyone and anything with a Y-Chromosome, both human and animal. Kingsley has more to lose than video games and the attention of the girl he loves. His mother believes millions of dollars in research can save her son, and she’ll lie, steal and worse to get it. But not everyone mourns the loss of the men. Can an unscrupulous mother and a spirited girl save the last boy on earth?

Fans of dystopian fiction and eco-thrillers (The Hunger Games, The MaddAddam Trilogy) will love KINGSLEY.
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  1. Carolyn O'Neal
    December 26, 2015 @ 3:35 pm  ·  Reply

    Thank you so much for spreading the word about Kingsley!

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