This research falls within the field of Literary Studies in an interdisciplinary perspective with Gender Studies and Sexual Diversity and aims to contribute to the investigations developed within the Research Group "Studies on contemporary brazilian narrative" (CNPq/UFT). The overall objective of this research is to analyze the different representations of gender and sexual diversity in child and adolescent literature, so as to show how this difference is represented in the texture of the literary text. Moreover, we seek to explain how to read literary works that address this theme can contribute to the formation of the contemporary readers. It is, therefore, a survey of literature and theoretical nature, by which we undertook an exercise i...