A 13-year-old Shenzhen girl has written a novel about life in junior high school, and the book is expected to hit the city's bookshelves in June, the Shenzhen Economic Daily reported on Thursday (May 24).

"A Fresh Summer Day," a 180,000-character novel which Zhao Yue completed writing in three months, is in fact Zhao's second published book. Her first book, "A Better Present," is a collection of the journals she wrote when she was still a primary school student.

Zhao is a Junior One student of Longling School in Longgang District. She started writing the novel after her first book was published. "I was very much motivated to write a new book when I saw many of my schoolmates reading my first book," the paper quoted Zhao as saying.

She added that she wrote most of the novel at night, sometimes until the early hours of the morning. "I attended school as usual during the three months of writing. I felt incredibly energetic every day even though I slept for only four hours a day," said the girl.

"A Fresh Summer Day" is about puppy love between two junior high school students, a phenomenon which is becoming fairly common among young children, the paper said. A Shenzhen Economic Daily reporter who read the draft of Zhao's story said the plot develops smoothly and naturally, while the descriptions of the characters' emotions are genuine and vivid.

Zhao said the story is based on interviews she conducted with some of her fellow students, "I personally don't have such a story to tell yet."

Zhao has loved writing since early childhood.

Editor: Wing