Buying Options

Digital List Price:	$3.99
Print List Price:	$9.99
Kindle Price:	$0.00 Save $9.99 (100%)

Promotions apply when you purchase

Deliver to your Kindle Library

You've subscribed to ! We will preorder your items within 24 hours of when they become available. When new books are released, we'll charge your default payment method for the lowest price available during the pre-order period.

Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at
Your Memberships & Subscriptions

There was an error. We were unable to process your subscription due to an error. Please refresh and try again.

Flynn's Log 1: Rescue Island by [Stone Marshall]

Follow the Author

Stone Marshall

Flynn's Log 1: Rescue Island Kindle Edition

by Stone Marshall (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

677 ratings

Book 1 of 5: Stone Marshall's Flynn's Log

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$0.00

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$3.90

$11.30

Kindle
$0.00 Read with Our Free App
Paperback
$3.90

1 Used from $11.30 6 New from $3.90

The world is in trouble and needs a Minecraft hero.

Flynn, a hacker, enters a familiar but changing video game world where something goes terribly wrong.

Flynn gets stuck inside the game! His memory is lost and the dangers he faces are real. The game world evolves introducing new dangers and creatures that Flynn has never seen before. An intelligent creature comes to his aid, but can Flynn trust this digital being?

About the Flynn's Log series: In the near future, video games begin to change and evolve. Random bits of data create a virtual intelligence that takes over the digital world. A digital crisis is born, bringing the real world to a halt. The only person who can save the world is Flynn, but he needs help from his friends, the Hackers.

“In short, this is a great read: ingenious set-up, exciting plot and strong characters.”
-A. Graves

“It was great! My son really loved it! He is eagerly waiting for the next one! He read it many times and every time he enjoyed the book.”
-Anil Sharma

“My non-reader asked if I would buy this for him. I couldn't have been happier. He really enjoyed it and I REALLY enjoyed the fact that he didn't put it down until he was finished.”
-Cheryl Greif

Reading age

7 - 10 years, from customers
Print length

161 pages
Language

English
Grade level

3 - 12
Publication date

April 14, 2014
Page Flip

Enabled
Word Wise

Enabled
Enhanced typesetting

Enabled
Sticky notes

On Kindle Scribe
See all details

Next 3 for you in this series See full series

Total Price: $7.98

By clicking on the above button, you agree to Amazon's Kindle Store Terms of Use

MJ Crossnether
61
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $0.00
Skeleton Steve
918
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $0.00
Skeleton Steve
431
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $0.00
Skeleton Steve
497
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $0.00
Stone Marshall
917
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $0.00
Skeleton Steve
533
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $0.00

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

STONE MARSHALL likes comics, video games, running, the Ramones, and travel. Stone reads stories with his son at bedtime. Sometimes, when they finish a book before falling asleep, Stone fills the time by creating great stories starring his son, Nabru. It is a wonderful time to share lessons about life and relationships.

In turn, Nabru becomes involved in the incredible adventures, adding his thoughts and perspectives. The ideas and stories of Nabru are the seeds of the amazing books that have become this series.

Connect with Stone: StoneMarshall.com/contact --This text refers to the paperback edition.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JOUMLYU
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stone Marshall Publishing; Edition 2.0 (April 14, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 14, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1278 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 161 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #28,149 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #21 in Children's Survival Story eBooks
- #46 in Activities, Puzzles & Games
- #890 in Action & Adventure Fiction (Kindle Store)

Customer Reviews:
677 ratings

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Videos

Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!

Upload your video

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Stone Marshall

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

STONE MARSHALL likes comics, video games, running, the Ramones, and travel.

Stone reads stories with his son at bedtime. Sometimes, when they finish a book before falling asleep, Stone fills the time by creating great stories starring his son, Nabru. It is a wonderful time to share lessons about life and relationships.

In turn, Nabru becomes involved in the incredible adventures, adding his thoughts and perspectives. The ideas and stories of Nabru are the seeds of the amazing books that have become this series.

Connect with Stone:

StoneMarshall.com/contact

Stone@StoneMarshall.com

Customer reviews

4.3 out of 5

677 global ratings

5 star		66%
4 star		15%
3 star		8%
2 star		3%
1 star		8%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Garrett Zecker

The kid loves it, but what did I expect?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 3, 2015

Verified Purchase

So, full disclosure: this read was meant for me and the little guy. The little guy is a feisty, Minecraft-obsessed six year old who I read to every night. We have made it through hundreds of picture books, and we are working on reading some chapter books. We started Harry Potter, we are a third of the way through the Oz books - we switch things up all the time... And then he saw this little treasure on my Kindle and we just had to read it. At the public library, similar books literally fly off the shelves. The holds list for Minecraft books are months long, and when you finally get your hands on one, they are like gold for the little demons. The author of Flynn's Log really knows the market and what is working right now.

That said, I have split my review into two parts. The first part is my review, the second, my son's.

I think this book was boring. Boring, boring, boring, boring, boring. It was an internal monologue about a guy who is all of a sudden stuck in an 8-bit videogame and has a slew of tiny little conflicts throughout. I actually give the author a great deal of credit as the conflicts span both internal and external using source material that is just a sandbox type videogame - a videogame with no plot. The game is cool, but the book is really what it says - a log of things he does. Hey, it gets kids to read, it gets kids interested in building things and using their imagination, but boy, every time my kid asked me to read it to him I felt like I wanted to take a pair of pliers and tug out a molar to have some sort of sensory feedback in my bonding experience with him. It was already nighttime. I got snoozy. The only redeeming part of the book were some small (and impressively off-brand original) illustrations that broke up the monotony. I wish there were more, and that they were larger.

In short, I will be approaching the rest of the series by telling my kid that that was a one-off book in hopes he never finds the kindle store. I never want to read one of these again.

HIS REVIEW: I mean, the kid loved it. This book was literally like Minecraft gold (or redstone, or lava, or whatever the equivalent is in-game) for my kid, and he ate up the process, the listing, the cataloging, and the drama (there was drama?) of this little book. He looked forward to reading this more than many other books in recent memory, and he would be incredibly engaged every minute of the narrative. It was a log, there was listing, it was boring, but man, my kid loved it.

I am giving this three stars - because I would give it one, and my kid would give it five, and I am not the intended audience at all but I am also skeptical of the overall quality of the book/narrative even though it kept him entertained. Will I be getting the rest of the series? I will avoid it for as long as I possibly can, but at the same rate I also managed to skip the summaries of the rest of the series at the end of the book "by accident" so my kid doesn't know they exist.

...I am a monster

7 people found this helpful

Helpful

The Minter

Loads of Fun

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 29, 2015

Verified Purchase

Ah, the nostalgia. There is nothing like playing the old-school video games. My personal favorites were Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog. Mario, Luigi, Sonic, Knuckles, etc, had to journey through various worlds, battle different creatures, overcome various obstacles, and along the way, collect various helpful items such as coins, mushrooms, stars, and flowers that helped them shoot fireballs. If they touched a monster once, they shrank. Twice, they died in a very dramatic manner (jumping straight up in the air with a look of shock on their face before falling off the edge of the edge of the screen. Goofy synthesizer music plays both during the game and upon the death of a character.

I haven’t played Minecraft (and I’m afraid to start; it might become addictive and cause me to waste a lot of time), but from Marshall’s description of it in his children’s novel Rescue Island: Flynn’s Log 1, it sounds like it operates under the same principles. The characters battle monsters, eat food provided by the digital world to restore their lives, and collect items necessary for survival or extra protection. The novel revolves around a hacker known as Flynn. Flynn has no memory of his previous life as he finds that he is a digital character in Minecraft. He battles giant spiders, hunts and fishes for food, and builds shelter. His only companion is an ocelot named Verve (and later, Verve’s daughter Khan). Soon, he finds out that it is his destiny to connect the digital and the physical worlds, and is unsure of how to do that.

If there is a secret to getting kids engaged in reading, I think Marshall has it. Marshall seems to understand that you have to write around kids’ interest and not try to enforce outdated, archaic material on them. I hope elementary schools are beating down Marshall’s door to buy the book. If there were more novels like Rescue Island, then schools wouldn’t struggle so much to get kids to read. I will be ordering a copy for my daughter. If you have a child age 5-12, I highly recommend this as a must-read. I also think adolescents and adults would enjoy this whimsical but action-packed novel as well.

3 people found this helpful

Helpful

Pygmy Amazon Reviews

The best thing I can say about this book is that ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 25, 2015

Verified Purchase

I utterly rave about this book to everyone I know who plays Minecraft. I adore the story that Stone Marshall has created here. Flynn finds himself suddenly a digital player in a Minecraft world; the story takes you through his days beginning as a new digitized person and how he comes to find his purpose in the game.

The best thing I can say about this book is that it gave my daughter the desire to learn to read. I am a homeschooling parent and I was honestly afraid my daughter would hate reading for her entire life. And then I found this book. I started reading it to her, hoping against hope to ignite a fire for books in her. That was two months ago. Now she is reading it to me (re-reading). Two months ago, I was lucky to get her to read an early reader book, and because of this one I have a girl who loves a good story and is happy to learn to read it for herself.

That is the best thing I can say as a mom, author, and reader. As a reviewer, I think this story is fantastic, the characters and plot draw you in and let you escape into a world full of mystery, surprise, danger, and adventure. it is well written and a highlight of elementary/middle-grade reads.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

@$.com

Best Minecraft Book Ever !¡!¡!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 23, 2015

Verified Purchase

Stone Marshall has really done very well with the first book in the series as it is thrilling and will not disappoint any child. As an 11 year old myself I found the book easy to read yet not overly so. Not to long yet not particularly short this Minecraft Novel hit all the right buttons in my case.

When the main character ,Flynn , is in danger you really feel like you're running along side him. And when a friend of his perishes you can feel the loss of that character to.

I recommend this book to every MC Player as you will laugh and you will learn.
11/10

Grace Hall

Awesome book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 6, 2019

Verified Purchase

I loved reading this book as I could relate to the character's feelings. It sounds like my first day in minecraft. Children my age would love this!
S.H. (10 year old boy)

Dan

Enjoyed alot by my son.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 20, 2020

Verified Purchase

My son enjoyed this book very much.

James

I really loved how Flynn loses his memory and gets sucked into ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 21, 2015

Verified Purchase

I really loved how Flynn loses his memory and gets sucked into a Minecraft sort of world though I do think it was sad when Verve the cat dies. Still, it's a very good book
and would love to read the second one.
(I'm looking for the next book but sadly can't find it.)
P.S sorry this review is so short.

Cf74

Awesome!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 14, 2015

Verified Purchase

My 7 year old son loved this book based on minecraft. He said it was exciting from start to finish. I found it a great way to get him to rediscover a love of books

Buying Options

Follow the Author

Flynn's Log 1: Rescue Island Kindle Edition

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Product details

Videos

About the author

Stone Marshall

Customer reviews

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries