UKLA Book Award 2016 Longlists
12-16
| Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher |
| Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda | Becky Albertalli | Penguin Books | |
| A Song for Ella Grey | David Almond | Karen Radford | Hodder Children’s Books |
| Blindside | Aidan Chambers | Barrington Stoke | |
| Apple and Rain | Sarah Crossan | Bloomsbury | |
| Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary | David Crystal & Ben Crystal | Kate Bellamy | Oxford University Press |
| This Is Not A Love Story | David, Keren | Atom | |
| The Apple Tart of Hope | Sarah Fitzgerald Moore | Orion | |
| The Door that Lead to Where | Sally Gardner | Hot Key Books | |
| The Lie Tree | Frances Hardinge | Macmillan Children’s Books | |
| There Will Be Lies | Nick Lake | Bloomsbury | |
| Pike | Anthony McGowan | Barrington Stoke | |
| An Island of Our Own | Nicholls, sally | Scholastic Children’s Books | |
| We Are All Made of Molecules | Susin Nielsen | Andersen Press | |
| All the Bright Places | Niven, Jennifer | Puffin | |
| Jessica’s Ghost | Andrew Norriss | David Fickling Books | |
| The Ghosts of Heaven | Marcus Sedgewick | Orion Indigo | |
| The Alex Crow | Andrew Smith | Electric Monkey | |
| Black Dove, White Raven | Elisabeth Wein | Electric Monkey | |
| The Art of Being Normal | Lisa Williamson | David Fickling Books |
7-11
| Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher |
| The Fish in the Bathtub | Eoin Colfer | Peter Bailey | Barrington Stoke |
| Demolition Dad | Phil Earle | Sara Ogilvie | Orion Children’s Books |
| The Fastest Boy in the World | Elizabeth Laird | Peter Bailey | Macmillan Children’s Books |
| The Astounding Broccoli Boy | Frank Cottrell Boyce | Steven Lenton | Macmillan Children’s Books |
| The Imaginary | A.F Harrold | Emily Gravett | Bloomsbury |
| Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor | Jon Scieszka | Brian Biggs | Amulet Books |
| Five Children on the Western Front | Kate Saunders | Faber & Faber | |
| The Dangerous Discoveries of Gully Potchard | Julia Lee | Oxford University Press | |
| Joe All Alone | Joanna Nadin | Little, Brown Young Readers | |
| Who is King? – And other tales from Africa | Beverley Naidoo | Piet Grobler | Janetta Otter Barry Books |
| The Sleeper and the Spindle | Neil Gaiman | Chris Riddell | Bloomsbury |
| The Boundless | Kenneth Oppel | David Fickling Books | |
| Cakes in Space | Philip Reeve | Sarah McIntyre | Oxford University Press |
| Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death | Chris Riddell | Chris Riddell | Macmillan Children’s Books |
| Hercufleas | Sam Gayton | Peter Cottrill | Andersen Press |
| The Cat Who Came in Off the Roof | Annie. M.G SchmidtTrans. David Colmer | Nathan Burton | Pushkin Press |
| The Pilot and the Little Prince | Peter Sís | Peter Sís | Pushkin Press |
| Lockwood & Co: The Whispering Skull | Jonathan Stroud | Doubleday | |
| A Tiger Tale | Holly Webb | Catherine Rayner | Scholastic Children’s Books |
| Atlas of Adventures | Rachel Williams | Lucy Leatherland | Wide Eyed Editions |
3-6
| Title | Author | Illustrator | Publisher |
| Please Mr Panda | Steve Antony | Steve Antony | Hodder Children’s Books |
| Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau | Andrea Beaty | David Roberts | Abrams & Chronicle Books |
| Blown Away | Rob Biddulph | Rob Biddulph | HarperCollins |
| This Book Just Ate My Dog! | Richard Byrne | Richard Byrne | Oxford University Press |
| Bears Don’t Read! | Emma Chichester Clark | Emma Chichester Clark | HarperCollins |
| The Something | Rebecca Cobb | Rebecca Cobb | Macmillan Children’s Books |
| Tiny: The Invisible World of Microbes | Nicola Davies | Emily Sutton | Walker Books |
| I am Henry Finch | Alexis Deacon | Viviane Schwarz | Walker Books |
| Eddie’s Tent – and How to Go Camping | Sarah Garland | Sarah Garland | Janetta Otter Barry Books |
| Space Dog | Mini Grey | Mini Grey | JonathanCape |
| The Dad With Ten Children | Bénédicte Guettier | Bénédicte Guettier | Scribblers Books |
| This is my Rock | David Lucas | David Lucas | Flying Eye Books |
| Flood | McClure, Gillian | Plaister Press | |
| Something About a Bear | Jackie Morris | Jackie Morris | Janetta Otter Barry Books |
| Use Your Imagination | Nicola O’Byrne | Nicola O’Byrne | Nosy Crow |
| Smelly Louie | Catherine Rayner | Catherine Rayner | Macmillan Children’s Books |
| On Sudden Hill | Linda Sarah | Benji Davies | Simon & Schuster Children’s Books |
| Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion | Alex T Smith | Alex T Smith | Scholastic Children’s Books |
| Following the Tractor | Susan Stegghall | Susan Stegghall | Frances Lincoln Children’s Books |
| Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise | Sean Taylor | Jean Jullien | Walker Books |
| The First Slodge | Jeanne Willis | Jenni Desmond | Little Tiger Press |
