48 pages 1 hour read

Casey McQuiston

I Kissed Shara Wheeler

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2022

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Chapters 21-25Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 21 Summary

The hallway at school is plastered with copies of emails Principal Wheeler wrote to students’ parents. The emails reveal that Principal Wheeler has been involved in admissions scams. Hundreds of emails are displayed reflecting Principal Wheeler’s payoffs, bribes, and under-the-table deals to boost the scores of students taking the ACT at Willowgrove. One of the emails even reveals that Principal Wheeler surreptitiously had one of the teachers raise one of Shara’s grades, which means that Shara is disqualified from valedictorian.

Rory tells Chloe that his stepfather gave him his BMW and that, because his stepfather had never given him a gift before, he was suspicious. Because he was suspicious, he snuck into his stepfather’s office and found that he had purchased the car from his brother in cash because all his brother’s belongings were to be seized after he was caught paying off the principal of his kid’s school for ACT answers.

Rory explains that when he snuck into Principal Wheeler’s office, he saw some of the same types of documents. He photographed them and asked Shara to look at them. Rory reveals that Shara was the one who exposed Principal Wheeler by printing and posting all the emails.