Unlikely Jewish Heroine Story Wins Raves

Mirka is just another ordinary 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl.

She goes to school and argues with her brother and sisters. She helps her stepmother bake Challah bread and polish candlesticks for Shabbat and learns "womanly arts" like cooking and knitting.

And in her spare time, she fights trolls and a monster pig, outsmarts a witch and dreams of being a dragon slayer.

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