Bernie

Bernie is a male human character who first appeared in JumpStart Adventures 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective.

Appearance
Bernie is a young man with fair skin, reddish-brown hair, and blue eyes. He wears a white collared T-shirt and an olive-green tie.

Personality and Characteristics
Bernie is an old friend of Jo's, and in the game's help file, she describes him as "a good guy". Although Bernie always claims to be busy when Jo visits him, he is more eager to help her than Maggie or Jimmy. Since he works as an undercover reporter for the Hooverville Daily newspaper, he knows a good deal of information. Bernie is apparently pretty bad at his temporary job as a bartender, at one point agreeing with Jo that people probably come to the bar to watch him rather than for the beverages.

JumpStart Adventures 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective
Bernie appears in The Squishy Juice Bar activity. During the events of JumpStart 5th Grade, he got a job there after he was temporarily replaced at the newspaper shop by a typing chimpanzee. Whenever Jo is on a mission to save a sabotaged site, she must visit Bernie to obtain one of the items she needs. Bernie will ask Jo for help mixing drinks in return for the item she needs.

At the end of the game, Bernie eventually gets his job as a reporter back, and even wins a Pulitzer Prize for his new story called "Bovine Beverages and the Duality of Man".

In Books
Bernie appears in Jo Hammet, Kid Detective, Solves the Great Jewel Robbery, a short story from the JumpStart Summer Vacation Activity Book for 5th Grade. Like in the game, he works at the juice bar while also working as a reporter for the Hooverville Daily.