She may only be nine years old but Nevaeh Eveille doesn’t let the limits of her age stop the reach of her dreams - finishing her very first book this month.
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The year 4 student finished her 17-chapter page turner The Girl in May and is already working on a sequel.
The novel follows the exploits of 11-year-old Sandy, a young girl who comes face-to-face with school bullies, standing up for herself and her friends.
Even more impressive is the fact Nevaeh’s novel is based loosely on real life events, her own way of standing up for her mother who faced bullying as she grew up.
“I heard my mum talk about stories of her being bullied from when she was at school and I thought I should make a book about how you can stand up to them,” the pint sized wordsmith said.
“It is time to take those bullies out and teach them how to be good.”
It is hardly a surprising move from a nine-year-old known as the “sunshine and rainbows of her class”, and it is a message she is determined to keep spreading.
“For anyone who has been bullied, someone should be saying that is not right to teach the bully a lesson,” she said on Monday.
But the social commentary doesn’t stop at bullying, with Nevaeh also taking inspiration from life happening around her to highlight society’s other issues.
“Chapter nine is the saddest chapter because we went to Tasmania in April and I saw lots of road-kill and I thought I would make a sad bit in my book so people know about the problem,” she said.
The upcoming sequel will also push an important message about accepting people for who they are, with Sandy set to befriend a girl who struggles with turning into a werewolf at night.
Nevaeh is hopeful the story will be finished in June.
Working diligently on her project after school for the past month the aspiring writer said putting together a book on her own had been something she had always wanted to do.
“My favourite writers are Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton and I thought I want to be like them when I grow up, so I got some paper, stapled it together and wrote a book,” she said matter-of-factly. But while it sounds like a simple endeavour Nevaeh’s finished product is anything but, featuring a number of sophisticated sub-plots, a quiz and detailed illustrations. “I just started to draw some crazy characters and I am always thinking about stuff I can write about every day so that’s how it all came together,” she said.
