The Secret Life of Dilly McBean
by Dorothy Haas
FictionOrphans in fictionOrphansMagnetism in fictionMagnetismChildren: Grades 4-6Adventure and adventurers, fictionChildren's fiction
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.
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