Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword

Hereville : how Mirka got her sword / Barry Deutsch ; colors by Jake Richmond.-- New York : Amulet Books, c2010.
137 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780810984226 (hbk.)
Author’s note: I drew Hereville on my computer using Photoshop and a Cintique tablet, which is a kind of interactive pen-on-screen tool. Jake the colorist, also used Photoshop to digitally add color to my black-and-white artwork.”

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One day on her way to school Mirka Hirschberg discovers a house that she’s never seen before in her town of Hereville and in the yard of this house is a woman pruning a tree while floating ten feet off the ground. Mirka plucks one of the enormous grapes hanging on the fence of the house, and she’s set upon by a monster. The monster turns out to be a pig, but since Hereville is town inhabited only by Orthodox Jews, Mirka has never seen one, and doesn’t know what to call it until enlightened by her more worldly step-sister. Since Mirka’s ambition in life is to be a dragon slayer, she vows that she’s not going to be defeated by a pig. But when she sets a trap for the pig, she ends up having to battle a troll!