Another lost title

acula_13

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I have forgoten the title of a rather wonderful book that I read as a young adult and would really appreciate any help in remembering that I can get. The plot was fairly complex (or at least it seemed that way at the time) but I'll do the best I can in describing it: This was a book about an elven race, I believe, that lived in very large trees; however, the trees were not attached to the ground and were in some way dying. That is to say that the trees were somehow like planets in themselves. I do remember that one particular elf (?) was determined to either save the tree or just go exploring, one of the two. Probably my most vivid memory of the story is that the higher the characters would go in the tree the less and less gravity affected them. There was a war that decided the fate of the tree and the race of people living in them.
That is really all I can remember of the story. I know that it was published more than ten years ago and that the book itself was green and I believe it had a tree on the cover. I have searched the title children of the trees and found nothing. Thank you for any help you can offer.
 
Could it be Below the Root, or one of the other books in the Green Sky trilogy, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder?
 
I researched the title and the author and unfortunately none of the green sky trilogy books were familiar. I don't think that this book was one in a series of books. However Below the Root did look interesting. Thanks for the suggestion.
 
The floating trees make me think it could be The Integral Trees by Larry Niven. SF not fantasy but the plot is similar.
 

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