Ace of Spades Summary & Study Guide

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
This Study Guide consists of approximately 38 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Ace of Spades.

Ace of Spades Summary & Study Guide

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
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Chiamaka and Devon, the two protagonists, alternate between chapters that they narrate in first-person present. They are both seniors at the elite private school, Niveus Academy. Devon is a scholarship student from the “bad side” of the unnamed town he lives in. He plays piano and dreams of going to Julliard, but he does not have any friends. He is gay, but he is closeted because he worries his mother and the gang members from his neighborhood will judge him harshly for the truth. Chiamaka, on the other hand, comes from a wealthy family and is the most popular girl in school.. She is named head prefect and dreams of going to Yale so she can become a doctor.

On the first day of senior year, someone calling themselves Aces texts the entire school and says they are there to divide and conquer. Next, they send a photo of Devon kissing football player Scotty, who is Chiamaka’s ex-boyfriend. Chiamaka is excited to meet back up with her friends, who are all wealthy legacy kids that spend the summer camp. When she sees her best friend, Jamie, she gets butterflies. She has been in love with his since freshman year, and they hooked up all junior year in secret, but she wants him to make her his girlfriend. However, he tells her that he has fallen in love with Belle, and she is now his girlfriend. Chiamaka thinks back to the worst moment of her life, when she was riding in Jamie’s car and he hit a girl, then they left her bleeding in the road.

The next day, a new text from Aces comes out telling the whole school that Chiamaka wanted to be with Jamie, but he chose Belle instead and she cried. Over the next few days, Aces accuses Chiamaka of stealing candy and leaving the science cabinet open so that dangerous and expensive materials can be taken.

Meanwhile, Devon’s illicit relationship with a local drug dealer, Dre, he occasionally works for to help his mother pay the bills is exposed by Aces. When Aces contacts Dre and threatens to expose his drug dealing business, Dre breaks up with Devon and his gang members beat him up. A boy from the neighborhood who Devon hardly remembers, Terrell, helps Devon gets home.

Aces leaves USB sticks in Devon and Chiamaka’s lockers with information on them. After they go to the library to look at the folders from the USB, Chiamaka goes to Headmaster Ward and tells him that someone is harassing her and Devon. However, Headmaster Ward blames them for harassing one another and gives them both detentions, then demotes Chiamaka from head prefect.

Belle broke up with Jamie and started hanging out with Chiamaka. Chiamaka started to develop romantic feelings for her. Devon begins spending time with Terrell, who is adamant that Aces must be someone who is racist and targeting the only two Black students in school. However, both Devon and Chiamaka think that someone has a personal vendetta against them, and they try to find out who is behind Aces.

A tech student helps them trace the texts from Aces and they learn that Aces uploads the texts once a week on Sundays from computer 17 in Morgan Library. Chiamaka and Devon decide to stakeout the library. Someone wearing a mask comes in and logs on to a secret website. Chiamaka tackles the person, who turns out to be the girl Chiamaka thought she and Jamie had hit with Jamie’s car, and Devon looks through the computer. He discovers that Aces is the “Ace of Spades Secret Society.” Dozens of their peers seem to be involved, and the society has been attacking Black students since 1965.

As Chiamaka tries to figure out how the girl she and Jamie hit was still alive, Devon learns that his music teacher has destroyed his attendance so that he cannot attend Julliard. Chiamaka discovers that Headmaster Ward was in Aces when he was a student in 1965, and he was involved in the murder of a Black student.

Chiamaka checks Belle’s Instagram and finds out that her sister, Martha, is the girl from the car accident and a member of Aces. Chiamaka confronts Belle, who admits that she is involved in the organization, which, she explains is dedicated to “social eugenics.” Chiamaka and Devon decide to go to the media. A reporter, Ms. Donovan, meets with them and tells them they should broadcast a live segment from Niveus’s Snowflake Ball to expose the school.

Devon sends out a tweet about Niveus that goes viral. He and Chiamaka go to the ball and make an impassioned speech about racism. However, Ms. Donovan turns out to be a member of Aces. She and all the Niveus students put on masks and move to attack Devon and Chiamaka. However, hundreds of protestors break into the school because of Devon’s tweets.

Chiamaka and Devon escape and Niveus burns down. A Black journalist contacts Devon and the story goes national. The epilogue is set 16 years later. Chiamaka and Devon are happy and successful. They run the Underground Society which works to expose racism in higher education and protect Black children from harm.

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