This article describes a partnership between teacher education candidates in a small, rural, private university and students in a large, public, urban junior/senior high school. This partnership utilized technology and used a Literature as a Bridge (LAAB) program to foster discussions designed to be vehicles of learning for all participants. The objectives of this program were to: (1) have urban youth see higher education as an option for their future by giving them experience with college students, college expectations, and a college campus; (2) increase cultural competence by providing opportunities for teacher candidates to work with culturally and ethnically diverse students with experiences different from their own; and (3) allow literature to be a vehicle to bridge diverse groups. The dynamic relationship between teacher candidate and high school students set the stage for transformational learning for both the teacher candidates and the junior/senior high school students.