Students' observations about society often become the basis for class discussions in Peter Cipparone's fourth-grade classroom. As Chip Wood, an expert on child development, observed, nine-year-olds are often "struggling with the cognitive task of understanding ethical behavior at a new level." One of this author's goals was to help his students observe and then "think deeply" as a first step in getting them to "act in ways that promote the common good." With this in mind, he selected the picture book "Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale" (a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People in 2014) to read with his students to enhance the study of immigration, bringing a current issue into their discussions. Author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh relates a rabbit family's struggle to find a better way of life. The story is an allegory of the migration of Mexicans seeking passage to the United States and the smugglers, or Coyotes, who prey upon them. At the outset of a unit of study on 19th and 20th century immigration to the United States, students interviewed family members and neighbors who had immigrated to this country. Following these interviews, the class studied eras of immigration and some of the laws that governed immigration. Students cared about the topic, grappled with some of the complexities, and had much to say. Tonatiuh's fable also changed the way many students viewed the immigrant groups whom they were studying.