"Soon to be a major motion picture"--Cover.

"Adapted for young adults."--Cover.

"This work is based on Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice, copyright ©2015 by Adam Makos. Published in hardcover in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2015."--Title page verso.

"A young adult adaptation of the national bestseller that details the true story of two Navy pilots from divergent racial and economic backgrounds who forge a deep friendship during the Korean War as they face extraordinary circumstances." --Amazon.com.

Makos tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper's son from Mississippi, Jesse became the Navy's first black carrier pilot, defending a nation that wouldn't even serve him in a bar. Go into the cockpit as these bold young aviators cut their teeth at the world's most dangerous job-- landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier.-- adapted from jacket, regular print edition.

Ages 12 up,Delacorte Press.