[size=0.8]A HONG KONG boy has published an English novel of some 50000 words
[size=0.8]The novel was included in Hong Kong’s book exhibition Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday
[size=0.8]Xinhua said the boy Li Yupeng 11 finished the science fiction The Four Phoenixes in one year
[size=0.8]Some 1000 copies of the book were printed and 200 copies had been sold — to the boy’s schoolmates
[size=0.8]The boy’s father published the book at a cost of HK$30000 as a gift for the boy’s graduation from primary school
[size=0.8]The book was about a hero’s adventure in the “Dark Age” The hero Koba took four “Phoenix swords” in the “Dark Age” to assassinate a warlord named Scaren Li said
[size=0.8]Li began reading English cartoons at the age of six and had read nearly 500 English books said his mother He took only five hours to finish reading a Harry Potter novel which had more than 600 pages
