The dilemma of promoting young adult literacy gripped the authors' seventh-grade class last year as never before. In an attempt to obliterate the students' reluctance to reading, the authors looked to technology to help motivate the students and break down their resistance to reading. This article describes the authors' successful integration of technological tools such as Trackstar, Inspiration, and PowerPoint into their lessons to promote reading in their seventh-grade classrooms. The authors conclude, based on their experience, that a number of their students ended up incorporated books into their lives as never before. They assert that using technology in their classes started their seventh-grade students on the road to making literature a focal practice. (Contains 2 figures.)