This was such a heartwarming, heartbreaking story. I'm emotional over teddy bears. It was emotional, with Sugar being my favorite of the teddies.

"They Threw Us Away" is not what I was expecting. There were some good parts, but overall I wasn't impressed.

What is the intended audience?
The cover makes this look like a sweet picture book, the story starts out with hopeful teddy bears wishing to be adopted, then it becomes really dark. Teddies are neglected, abused and tortured. "Limbless torsos were plopped about..." "The only part of the pink teddy that moved were the white wisps of stuffing fluttering from her eye holes."
The vocabulary ranges from childlike quotes of the teddies speaking "This is a super-wooper snug" to "There was nothing inspiring about this stretch of road or these anonymous office buildings" and phrases about a teddy "theorizing."
I wanted to like this book, but don't know I would recommend this book to. A child, a teen, an adult?