Eight YA books about defying parental expectations

Sona Charaipotra is a New York City-based writer and editor with more than a decade’s worth of experience in print and online media. At the BN Teen blog she tagged eight YA books about defying parental expectations, including:The Poet X, by Elizabeth Acevedo

Perhaps one of the most anticipated debuts of the year, this novel in verse centers on Dominican American Xiomara, a young