Desdemona-Twelve Going on Desperate — Beverly Keller

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. Author Biography: Beverly Keller's other books include No Beasts! No Children! and Fowl Play, Desdemona. She lives in Davis, Ca.