Title: The Secret Life of Dilly McBean
First published: 1986
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Orphans in fiction, Orphans, Magnetism in fiction, Magnetism, Children: Grades 4-6, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Children's fiction, Computers, fiction, Boys, fiction
LC classification: PZ7.H1124 Se 1986