How does the Setting Affect what is Happening in the Book?

The setting of Catch a Falling Star is placed in Little, California, a suburb based off the large city of Los Angeles. This plays an important role in the differences of the main characters and how they react to one another. Carter and Adam form a pretend relationship to better improve his image as a celebrity, and because of this, the headlines for newspapers are able to make references to the couple by having an important society teenager dating a simple, small town girl. The disagreements that arise between them revolve around how Adam has seen more of the world and is greatly impacted for the worse because of how much attention he receives, while Carter has never left her town of Little and has no desire to either. In the end, they both realize how changing up their scenery can be for the better.