num_pages: 176
description: It's one disaster after another as Desdemona Blank tries to make friends at her new junior high, salvage her single-parent father's budding romance, and not think too much about Mike Harbinger, the fifteen-year-old blond school heartthrob. Then several extraordinary things happen'including getting to know Mike'and Desdemona's desperate life becomes a delirious one.
language: English
title: Desdemona - Twelve Going on Desperate
titlecomplete: Desdemona - Twelve Going on Desperate
genres: Middle Grade, Fiction
ratings_count: 38
series: Desdemona
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Intermediate
publisher: HarperCollins