Literary works written for children and young adults also serve functions like preparation of them for education and life, as well as benefits such as giving students literary pleasure and acquiring reading habit. Literacy books, which give a broader perspective on readers and gain valuable experience for them by comparing different lives that contain within themselves, have an important role in the formation of children's autonomous self. Child forms her or his personality by emulating the figures in the books he/she have read and engraves this in his/her own subconscious. The aim of this study was to determine characters of children and parents served as a model for society through children and young adult literature works. Accordingly, characters of children and parents in ten works selected with criterion sampling method were examined using content analysis method. In consequence of this study, it has been found that child characters in the books examined have similar characteristics. Child heroes who are curious, questioning, imaginative, fond of reading book, nature and animals and non-technology addiction have been presented to the attention as positive role-models for child readers. Parent characters included in books within the scope of examination are more traditional. Parents who use traditional methods to bring up their children are authoritative, permissive, unconcerned and perfectionistic figures. Adult models who prefer to give them advice, make decisions in behalf of them, ignore their opinions and often hold them in low regard instead of serving as a model for children have also been included in the works examined. Based on these results, it has been reached the conclusion that contemporary children and young adult literature make a significant contribution to their personality development by presenting positive rolemodels for its readers.