num_pages: 208
description: After being orphaned at an early age and spending years in boarding schools, Dilly begins a new life in a real house in a small town, developing secret magnetic powers under the tutelage of a kindly professor, until he is kidnapped by a madman who plans to control the world with a computer.Twelve-year-old Dilloway McBean, a wealthy orphan with strange magnetic powers, puts his magnetism to work as he matches wits with the dastardly Dr. Keenwit, a computer whiz out to steal Dilly's money and seize world power
language: English
title: The Secret Life of Dilly McBean
titlecomplete: The Secret Life of Dilly McBean
genres: Childrens
ratings_count: 67
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks