The Harlem Angels:
Origin Story
A Story of Music, Heart, and Finding Your Voice.
Book One. Written by S. R. Greenky. Illustrated throughout.
What it’s about
Angelina, Angelika and Angelala are three Harlem teenagers with different personalities and one thing in common: music.
When their teacher, Miss Robinson, gives them the chance to sing together after school, a friendship begins and a new group takes shape. They turn a storage room in the church basement into a rehearsal space and call it The Nest.
As their voices grow stronger, so do their dreams. Then an unexpected turn changes their journey in ways none of them could have imagined.
What happens next is the story.
Series
The Harlem Angels, Book One
Chapters
Eighteen, plus an epilogue
Illustrations
Throughout
Publisher
The Harlem Angels, LLC
ISBN
979-8-1864097-7-9
What runs through it
Friendship
Three very different girls who are better together than apart, on stage and everywhere else.
Music and finding your voice
Confidence built the slow way, in a rehearsal room, with someone in the room who is actually listening.
Mentorship and learning
From the beginning, Miss Robinson makes one thing clear: music and learning grow together.
Resilience and passing it on
Keep going, and then help the next person keep going too. It is the idea the whole book is built around.
Inside the book
From Chapter One
Even after school lets out, when the yellow buses rumble away and the crossing guards fold up their signs, the streets stay alive. Sneakers squeak on hot sidewalks. Delivery trucks honk. Old men play dominoes outside bodegas. Somebody’s abuela leans out a window calling a name that echoes down the block like a song.
The Harlem Angels: Origin Story
Who you’ll meet
Angelina
The oldest. Curly hair, skateboard, first to speak.
Angelika
The middle one. Patient, warm, notices everything.
Angelala
The youngest. Braids, headphones, extraordinary ear.
Miss Robinson
Their music teacher, and the reason any of it happens.
“Heartwarming….
I really liked the story of how they came together.”
I really liked the story of how they came together.”
13-year-old advance reader
Book One of a series.
Origin Story is where The Harlem Angels begins. The book closes with a note to the reader that the story continues, and Book Two is on the way.
