A vida secreta de Dilly McBean por Dorothy Haas. Eu acho que é isso, como eu me lembro de ter lido uma história como essa quando era mais jovem, e é o único livro como esse na biblioteca da minha escola primária.
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