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Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

Nancy Farmer

Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

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About Nancy Farmer

Nancy Farmer (born 1941) is an American writer of children's and young adult books and science fiction. She has written three Newbery Honor Books and won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The House of the Scorpion, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2002.