Compound: She picked up a new book .

Choice B adds an independent clause: “she read it on the trip home” has its own subject (“she”) and verb (“read”), so it can be joined to the first independent clause with “and.” Choice C is only a prepositional phrase describing the book, so it does not make the sentence compound. The correct choice is “and she read it on the trip home.”

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