Reading Skills on Independent Novel

The independent novel I am reading right now is My Life Next Door. In this novel it is about this girl, Samantha, who lives in a nice neighborhood in a big house with her sister and mom. Ever since her mom became a politician she isn't home as much as she use to be. Samantha has these  neighbor who her mom said she is never aloud to talk to or socialize with. But she actually sits her in window and watches the Garrett's. They have Joel, Alice, Jase, Andy, Duff, Harry, George and Pasty. Even though Sam has never talked to them face to face she still can pick out everyone's voices and what they look like. But one night Samantha is sitting on her roof watching the older Garrett's play basketball one of the sons come up on her roof and sit down. They get to talking and they actually have a pretty deep conversation. The next day she is walking home from school and she sees Jase, the guy she was talking to last night working in the garage. She talks to him for a little while and Jase invites her inside. Jase is actually babysitting so Samantha helps out with the two older kids. Mrs. Garrett comes home and meets Sam. Sam leaves and the next afternoon they see each other walking home. Mrs. Garrett asks Samantha if she would want to start babysitting George and Pasty twice a week. Samantha says yes but how is she going to do this when her mom said she isn't even aloud to talk to this family? Is she going to get caught? What happens when her mom actually does find out? Why did her mom say she can't hang out with this family just because they live a different live then there's? I think when she starts babysitting her and Jase are going to start falling in love. I think they are going to

have a hard time keeping it a secret though. One connection I made is text to text. In the book the Outsiders they boy and girl next door aren't aloud to talk or even see each other but the boy sneaks out everyday and goes and sees her. Another connection I made was text to self. Two summers ago I was at my lake house and there was a boy two houses down and his mom was very rude and did not get along with my aunts so they just kept there distance from each other and didn't talk to each other. But one of the boys threw a football on our part of the lake and I went to go get it for him and we started talking even though our families tried keeping there distance from each other.