Looking for a book title...

[ellenmillion]

It's a 'children's' book that I remember checking out of the library month after month, by an author with an alliterative name (Katherine Kooper? Catherine Cadwell?) about a society of muggles (I think this was the term, though it may have been something close that has been corrupted by Harry Potter) who live perfectly harmonious lives in a valley and wear all gray. But there are a few outcasts who like bright colors and... um... poetry? and go to live by themselves and save the people from mysterious mushroom invaders. It was along time ago, the details are hazy. There were two books in the setting, though I vaguely recall that the first was much better.

But I loved that book and I'd like to find it again! Any ideas?

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[adpaz.livejournal.com]

Thank to tristam (my husband), we may have found it for you. May I present The Gammage Cup by Carol Kendall (http://www.amazon.com/Gammage-Cup-Carol-Kendall/dp/015202493X)?

Rich said that was the book he decided to read rather than The High King in one of his talented and gifted classes, so he remembers it fondly.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

FTW!!! Thank you so much!!

[penmage.livejournal.com]

It IS The Gammage Cup, and it is one of my favorite childhood favorites. The ending still makes me tear up, every single damn time I read it.

I love that book.

The second book, The Whisper of Glocken, never had the same magic for me.

[bewilde.livejournal.com]

I <3 this book SO MUCH. I have an old library-discard copy of it that I still read occasionally. (My middle daughter just read it recently for the first time...)

[pixiewildflower.livejournal.com]

I need to put that on my list.