25 Young Adult Novels Guaranteed to Make You Ugly Cry

Told through a series of letters, Ava Dellaira's debut novel, Love Letters to the Dead, revolves around a young woman who copes with the loss of her sister by penning notes to others who died too soon — from Kurt Cobain to Janis Joplin to Amelia Earhart — in the hope of making sense of her sister's death, as well as her new life without her.