title: The Longman Reader (11th Edition)
author: Judith Nadell
description: John Langan has taught reading and writing at Atlantic Cape Community College near Atlantic City, New Jersey, for more than twenty-five years. The author of a popular series of college textbooks on both writing and reading, John enjoys the challenge of developing materials that teach skills in an especially clear and lively way. Before teaching, he earned advanced degrees in writing at Rutgers University and in reading at Rowan University. He also spent a year writing fiction that, he says, is now at the back of a drawer waiting to be discovered and acclaimed posthumously. While in school, he supported himself by working as a truck driver, a machinist, a battery assembler, a hospital attendant, and an apple packer. John now lives with his wife, Judith Nadell, near Philadelphia. In addition to his wife and Philly sports teams, his passions include reading and turning on nonreaders to the pleasure and power of books. Through Townsend Press, his educational publishing company, he has developed the nonprofit Townsend Library, a collection of more than a hundred new and classic stories.
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  # The Good Teacher
  
  
  ## RACHEL SARGEANT
  
  
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  A division of HarperCollins _Publishers_
  
  
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  ### [Copyright](9780008327224_epub_itoc.xhtml#d2-d4b53d543e924-d1e232)
  
  
  KillerReads
  
  
  an imprint of HarperCollins _Publishers_ Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1
  9GF
  
  
  [www.harpercollins.co.uk](http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)
  
  
  First published in Great Britain as _Long Time Waiting_ by Robert Hale Ltd
  2010
  
  
  This ebook edition published by HarperCollins _Publishers_ 2019
  
  
  Copyright © Rachel Sargeant 2010
  
  
  Cover design by Andrew Davis © HarperCollins _Publishers_ Ltd 2019
  
  
  Cover photograph © [Shutterstock.com](https://www.shutterstock.com/)
  
  
  Rachel Sargeant asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this
  work.
  
  
  A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
  
  
  This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents
  portrayed in it are the work of the