The Secret Life of Dilly McBean

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