I liked this a little less than Below the Root... it went over a lot of the same plot from a different perspective, which was fine, but it was pretty redundant after a while when I just want to see how it turns out! It did go over some of the philosophy and thinking of the green-sky people, which made me think... could human kind ever evolve past violence? Is Love and Compassion ever truly stronger than the desire for power? Not just for short times, and not just in a few people, but in an entire society, and what would you do to combat violence if violence is no longer an option?

Not as good as the first.

This was my favorite book as a child. I still have it.

UNIFORCE!!!
Pomma and Teera can do anything!!
enough with going over every thing again though

Eight-year-old Teera finds herself above the powerful Root that keeps her Erdling community captive underground. The Erdlings are feared and despised by the Kindar people who live in the massive trees above. Raamo and Neric, two young Kindar discover Teera and for reasons of their own decide to keep her hidden, allowing her to live with Raamo’s parents and his sister, Pomma. But Teera’s existence does not remain a secret and soon she, Raamo, Neric, and their friends are all in danger.

This book would be nifty as a stand-alone, but as a sequel to Below the Root (the first book in the trilogy) it's kind of boring and frustrating. Basically, it repeats the events in n  Below the Rootn almost exactly, except from a slightly altered perspective, so the first 150 pages are a retread of what already came before.

The second book is told from multiple points of view, which is very important for the story. However, I think it suffers from the difficulty of all middle books in trilogies. And when I was a child, I always wanted to hear more from Raamo.

Good but ended very abruptly. Fairly typical of a middle book in a trilogy.

My name is Teera, and I find myself above the Root for the first time. I've heard wonderful stories of the Kindar people living among the treetops, but I'm terrified being by myself. I'm living with Raamo's family now, but I can't let them know I'm an Erdling. The best thing is sharing a space with Pomma. We've learned to Image with each other, so Pomma has discovered most of my secrets. I trust she won't tell anyone else, but I'm still afraid she'll let something slip. I'm sure the Ol-zhann won't be happy if they know of my true identity, and I fear what they'll do to the other Erdlings. I'm happy Raamo is willing to help, but I'm not sure about his friends. I've just met another novice Ol-zhann named Genaa, and her angry emotions toward Erdlings frighten me.

You should read Below the Root first, as book two described how Teera came to find Raamo, the main character in book one. It covered many of the same events but from a different point of view. The intrigue was how Teera's presence could endanger everyone living below the Root, as her appearance could reveal the Ol-zhann's secrets. The conflict arose when the Ol-zhann exiled a segment of its citizens from the treetops many years ago. The crux of the issue concerned how much historical truth should be revealed to maintain a peaceful culture. Should the citizens be aware of their ancestors' past acts of aggression and violence, or should those kinds of thoughts and behaviors be taboo for discussion and knowledge? The early settlers of Green Sky battled with these questions until the believers of historical openness were banished below the Root. The controversy arose again with the appearance of Teera. It was evident the Ol-zhann wanted to keep the Kindar in blissful ignorance, but the leaders became willing to use the banned behaviors to preserve it. The story will make you think, which I like. Overall, I'm enjoying the series and recommend you give it a shot.

This trilogy is so very interesting in some ways. The first book, Below the Root, is very much a stand-alone, if you want it to be. The end is kind of a good end.

This book more or less covers Raamo's first year as an initiate in the Ol-zhaan, his building friendship with Geena and Neric, not to mention the friendships between Teera and Pomma. The three Ol-zhaans make quite a discovery as they're exploring on the forest floor, and it leads to some disturbing new information about the history of the Kindar and their below-the-root neighbors, the Paachan.

And All Between is not a good end, if you want things to end right there, with the second book. There is no closure, really, although the reader gets a few definitive answers the narrative and the characters hadn't already expressly known. All the same, it ends on a cliffhanger, basically what the first two books are building toward, and I barely took a breath after finishing And All Between before I switched over to the third and final book to continue reading.

One of the things I thought about as I reread both this book and Below the Root last week is how much The Giver owes to this series, whether or not Lowry had read these books. The idea of a non-violent utopia, with certain developmental checkpoints for all children, public celebrations of those checkpoints, the burden of knowledge that is placed on a select few, even the fear of the other... it's all in both The Giver and this series. Since this is a reread for me, maybe that is why The Giver felt for familiar and comfortable when I started reading it. They are definitely their own stories, no doubt there, but they're in the same family of books with some of the same plot elements, setting characteristics, and character sensibilities.

I didn't like this second installment of Green Sky quite as well as the first (Below the Root), since more than half of it recounts events also told in the first book, but from a different person's point of view. It might have enjoyed it better if, like the first readers back in the 70s, I had had to wait a year (instead of a few weeks) after reading the first book, waiting for the second to be published. Though it is somewhat interesting to see the same events from the other side.

And All Between takes us up to the climax of Below the Root and then goes a little beyond that fragile victory to another terrible crisis and its happy resolution. But we're not much forwarder - there's still a feeling of much left to be done before things are as they should be, and many things likely to go wrong.

1/25/18 $.99 for Kindle.

Apparently the popularity of this book and its sequels were attributed to some old school video game. It was recommended to me by a website I can no longer find. Someone did an extensive listing of mostly fantasy books from The Hobbit to current series circa 2000ish.
It took me years to find and buy them.
So I am saddened to say, I although I enjoyed the 2 books. (Below the Root, And All Between (Green Sky, #2) Until the Celebration (Green Sky, #3) grew tedious by the end.