One setting in the story Crash by Jerry Spinelli is inside Penn Webb's house. Penn's house is the size of a garage. That didn't stop Penn from wanting to live there, he would rather live there than in North Dakota where he used to live. He enjoyed his house or so called a garage. Penn told crash to come to his house for dinner. While Crash was trying to do nothing with Penn and shun him. Crash obeyed Penn and had dinner with him. Dinner was not a good experience for Crash because the Webb family is strange.
A second setting is the school of Penn Webb, Crash Coogan and Mike Deluca. They all attend the seventh grade together. On the first day of school, the students arrive at school very early. Everyone checks each other out to see what changed over the summer. Part of this is also first day excitement. Kids check out each others labels on the new school clothes. Then when Penn shows up with grocery store sneakers, kids don't know what to think of him. Does he dress like that for a joke or is he poor?
Another setting is in the principal's office. Crash and Mike were there on the first day of school. This happened because a teacher touched Crash and he didn't like it. Although, Crash did not know it was a teacher that tapped him. So, without looking he shoved the pudding from his hand onto the teacher's hand. Mike went to the principal's office with Crash when he got sent there, just to be a good friend. The principal explained he would cut them some slack because it was only the first day of school. He also told them that he would be watching them, just in case they do something bad again.
One more setting is when all the football team boys are in the gym getting talked to by their coach about the upcoming season. The whole team was there, as were other sports teams such as the cheerleading team. The girl that Mike and Crash were in love with, Jane Forbes, was there. This was the boys' dream come true, the girl could cheer them on and find out who they are. The boys loved her and had a crush on her and wanted to get to know her. Plus she could get to know them and maybe get a crush on them. That would be a dream come true for Mike and Crash.