100 Days (31 page)

To editor extraordinaire Joy Peskin and the entire team at FSG/Macmillan for providing the perfect home for Agnes, Boone, and Moira's story.

To librarians and independent booksellers, the frontline champions of books that might not otherwise find an audience.

Finally, my deepest gratitude to kids everywhere who show courage by facing fear in all its many forms every day. You are my heroes and my inspiration.

 

AUTHOR'S NOTE

If you'd like to learn more about Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome and the efforts to find a cure, visit the Progeria Research Foundation at
progeriaresearch.org
.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nicole McInnes
is an author, speaker, writing and literature instructor, animal lover, chocolate aficionado, and mom. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she attended the University of California at Santa Cruz and Northern Arizona University. The “idea seeds” for
100 Days
—and for Agnes's, Moira's and Boone's characters—emerged from a multitude of experiences. These include Nicole's work with therapeutic horseback riding programs for people with emotional, physical, and cognitive disabilities; her own postmodern/goth/punk-inspired fashion and music phase as a young adult; and her many years of living in rustic, rural settings, where water needs to be hauled and pipes sometimes freeze. Nicole lives in the mountains of northern Arizona with her family. The nonhuman menagerie-in-residence consists of elderly Arabian horses, middle-aged dogs of the Australian Shepherd and golden variety, a dieting Siamese cat, a betta fish with attitude, and occasional stray visitors of various species. The San Francisco Bay Area remains her second home.
100 Days
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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

1: Boone

2: Moira

3: Boone

4: Agnes

5: Moira

6: Agnes

7: Boone

8: Moira

9: Agnes

10: Boone

11: Agnes

12: Moira

13: Boone

14: Agnes

15: Moira

16: Boone

17: Moira

18: Agnes

19: Boone

20: Moira

21: Agnes

22: Boone

23: Moira

24: Boone

25: Moira

26: Agnes

27: Moira

28: Boone

29: Moira

30: Boone

31: Agnes

32: Moira

33: Agnes

34: Boone

35: Moira

36: Agnes

37: Boone

38: Agnes

39: Boone

40: Moira

41: Boone

42: Agnes

43: Boone

44: Agnes

45: Moira

46: Boone

47: Agnes

48: Boone

49: Agnes

50: Boone

51: Moira

52: Boone

53: Agnes

54: Moira

55: Agnes

56: Moira

57: Boone

58: Agnes

59: Boone

60: Moira

61: Agnes

62: Boone

63: Moira

64: Agnes

65: Moira

66: Boone

67: Moira

68: Agnes

69: Moira

70: Boone

71: Moira

72: Agnes

73: Boone

74: Agnes

75: Moira

76: Agnes

77: Boone

78: Agnes

79: Moira

80: Agnes

81: Boone

82: Agnes

83: Boone

84: Agnes

85: Boone

86: Moira

87: Agnes

88: Boone

89: Agnes

90: Moira

91: Agnes

92: Boone

93: Agnes

94: Moira

95: Boone

96: Moira

97: Boone

98: Moira

99: Boone

100: Agnes

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Author's Note

About the Author

Copyright

 

Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers

175 Fifth Avenue, New York 10010

 

Text copyright © 2016 Nicole McInnes

 

All rights reserved

First hardcover edition, 2016

eBook edition, August 2016

 

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

 

Names: McInnes, Nicole, author.

Title: 100 days / Nicole McInnes.

Other titles: One hundred days

Description: First edition.|New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016.|Summary: “A teen girl suffers from progeria, a rare disease that causes her to age rapidly. This is the story of three unlikely friends learning to live life to its fullest before ultimately letting it go”—Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015036847|ISBN 9780374302849 (hardback)|ISBN 9780374302856 (ebook)

Subjects:|CYAC: Progeria—Fiction.|Terminally ill—Fiction.|Friendship—Fiction.|BISAC: JUVENILE FICTION / Health & Daily Living / Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries.|JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship.|JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Death & Dying.

Classification: LCC PZ7.M478654 Aam 2016|DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at
http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036847

 

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