Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the same year that Joanne Hyppolite was born. Her collection of short stories about Haitians and Haitian-Americans, titled Krik? Krak!, was published the same year as Seth and Samona and was nominated for the National Book Award.

Taste of Salt is a novel of modern Haiti by Frances Temple, capturing local traditions and customs. It was written at about the same reading level as Seth and Samona. Published in 1991 by Orchard Books, New York.

Joanne Hyppolite's other novel to date is Ola Shakes it Up (1998), about a child, Ola, who moves from the city to an all-white, rules-and-regulations controlled suburb, and proceeds to initiate her own ‘‘Operation Shake 'Em Up’’ to bring a little life to the place.

Nine-year-old Gillian and her best friend Hank are the main characters in Amy Hest and Jacqueline Rogers' Getting Rid of Krista. Tired of the attention always given to her older sister, Gillian schemes to have her discovered by producers and taken away to Broadway.

Fans of the unusual aspects of Samona's family might appreciate the even more eccentric family in Sid Hite's Those Darn Dithers, published in 1996. It is the story of a family of entertainers and inventors, less realistic than this book but just as imaginative.

Famed actor Ossie Davis has written a novel about the Civil Rights Movement for young adults, called Just Like Martin, about a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and pastor at his church, Isaac Stone, and his relationship with his Korean War-veteran father during the turbulent 1960s.

A more sinister view of the urban experience is seen in Fast Talk on a Slow Track, by Rita Williams-Garcia, about eighteen-year-old high school valedictorian Denzel, who decides to pass up his opportunity to go to Princeton and instead becomes a door-to-door salesman. The book chronicles his competition with a rival salesman, Mello, who is an unwed father, illiterate and a drug user.

Anne-Christine d'Adesky's novel Under the Bone is an acclaimed, but disturbing, novel about life in Haiti in the 1990s, with the social turmoil and resultant violence that is only alluded to by Hyppolite.