For new owners and managers, as well as those who plan to open within the next six months, this program focuses on refining competitive advantages, keys to store design, retail buying and inventory management practices, and marketing to build sales and create customer loyalty. 'Managing for Love & Profit' takes place September 9-12 on Amelia Island, Fla. Participants will learn to estimate their start-up investment and potential earnings, understand the latest in industry trends, and see how indie booksellers are successfully competing in today's bricks-and-clicks retail world. 'Deciding to Own a Bookstore' will be held August 15 & 16 in Northville, Mich. Author-illustrator Yang often portrays the violence obliquely or uses a cartoony style that softens the impact of bloody scenes.Two workshops, co-sponsored by the American Booksellers Association and facilitated by Donna Paz Kaufman and Mark Kaufman of the Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates, have been scheduled for August and September, featuring guest booksellers and trainers to share frontline expertise. Violence plays a major role in the books' most important scenes: everything from fistfights, shootings, stabbings, sword fights, and a decapitation to setting fire to a church filled with women and children. Both characters struggle to do what's right, but their beliefs put them in direct opposition. In Saints, a young outcast named Four-Girl, later to become Vibiana, embraces what she thinks of as deviltry but then converts to Christianity. Boxers follows Little Bao, who learns kung-fu fighting techniques and gradually gathers an army of peasants who rebel against foreign missionaries and solidiers.

These graphic novels depict China's Boxer Rebellion from the viewpoints of two teen protagonists. Printz Award, among other literary awards and honors. Parents need to know that Boxers & Saints is a set of two graphic novels by Gene Luen Yang ( American Born Chinese), the first graphic novelist to be a finalist for the National Book Award and the first to win the American Library Association's Michael L. One minor supporting character is an opium addict.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide.

Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang