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This just needs a lot of clean-up. As long as the ISBN is valid (and not a NAB) we don't delete it. In this case the author needs to be changed, and I would change the title to better match the other edition. It also needs to be combined. I can leave this for you to do, or if you want I could do it.
I did make some changes but I left a few things because I wasn't sure. I couldn't combine editions because they're listed with different authors. I don't see anything on the actual book indicating that it was written by Parke Godwin and there are several other books in this same graphic novel series with "Hyperion Books for Children" listed as the author. So I'll leave that part up to a more experienced librarian like yourself to fix.
This book is listed twice:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...
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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
That second link seems to be missing a whole lot of data - no cover image, no other editions, no author, etc. The publisher is Volo which is an imprint of Hyperion, so Hyperion Books is listed as the author. Hyperion seems to be listed as the author of a lot of books.
I'm not sure if these are two editions of one book or just duplicate entries of one book. According to the bar code on the back of the book, the ISBN is 0786837500 (and it says "Special Edition") but according to the inside cover, the ISBN is 0786836741. The cover of the book we have does seem to be identical to the cover shown on that first link.
So is that second link a different edition that needs to be updated or is it a duplicate that needs to be deleted? I tried looking through the librarian manual and couldn't find an answer and I didn't want to mess with it until I knew what I should be doing.