The Fourth "R‪"‬

When Jimmy's mother and father are murdered by their best friend for a radical new invention that educates children, Jimmy must escape and survive until he reaches adulthood. The last copy of the plans for the invention are stored in his brain, and the murderer—who happens to be his godfather and legally appointed guardian—will stop at nothing to control the invention.

A classic super-man story, named by Damon Knight as one of the ten best science fiction books of 1959.