The secret life of Dilly McBean /
by Dorothy Haas.
- New York : Bradbury Press, c1986.
- 202 p. ; 22 cm.
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.