We can provide selections of the best books tailored to your needs, from supporting the curriculum to creating an anti-racist classroom or just to encourage reading for pleasure.
Borrowing entitlement
- Up to 70 items per ticket at any one time
- Up to six copies of the same book per ticket
- A selection of class reading sets (15+ copies)
- Up to 500 fiction/ picture books on a whole-school ticket (permanent loan* for the school library or class book corners)


Fiction
- Story books and novels from primary to sixth-form level, including class sets
- Fiction and picturebooks supporting Philosophy for Children
- Picture books for young and older readers
- Books exploring diversity themes including black history, gender, disabilities, LGBT, age and class equality
- Graphic novels and Manga
- Book and CD packs
- Reading for pleasure, or supporting a literacy target
- High interest – low reading level books
- Annual Teenage Booklist, Must Reads and Takeoff! booklists
- The annual Tower Hamlets Book Award



Non-Fiction
Books to support all primary and secondary curriculums
- A continually evolving collection covering the topics that YOU need
- Non-fiction for reading for pleasure
- Early years to secondary



Class sets
- Sets of class readers. 15 copies in each set
- Fiction for all year groups
- Choose from our expanding list of sets
- We can buy class sets to order. Please place orders at least 4 weeks before you need to use them.



Dual Language

The Schools Library Services has a large collection of dual language and foreign language books for you, whether you’re teaching another language, supporting children with English as an additional language, or engaging with parents with English as an additional language.
- Storybooks, spoken word, dictionaries and teaching aids

Big books, literacy and numeracy
- Fiction and non-fiction big books
- Organised by literacy hour genre as well as alphabetical and subject order
- See our Literacy & Numeracy page for more about our big book collection and book banding

*Permanent loan books must be returned if the school ceases a subscription to the library.