Help! I can't change my background or click on desktop icons!

I have a MacBook I just got a few weeks ago. It's been fine until now. I just closed it twenty minutes ago after I left my dad's house and it was fine. I opened it up when I got back home and my desktop background was plain blue.
I tried to change it through system preferences but, even though I can click on the pictures the background doesn't change.
I then tried to get to disk utility but when I clicked on the Mac HD icon on my desktop, it wouldn't open. My clicking didn't even highlight it.
I can still get to my files using the Finder. However, I can only access the finder by clicking on the dock. Clicking on the background does nothing. I can still move my mouse.
But that's it. It's as if the MacBook doesn't even register my mouse clicks at all.

It had very little battery life left when it changed,
although it was plugged in. Could that have had
something to do with it?
Probably not..although I guess anything is possible...

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