Ender's Game/Shadow, while being excellent books in their own right, were overshadowed (pun unintended) by Speaker For The Dead (The second Ender book). That book was crazy nuts.
Anyways, the recommendation for Timothy Zahn sounds reasonable to me. I used to be really into Star Wars books back in middle school and loved his follow-up Star Wars books. They had good space battles with well fleshed out and interesting characters. At least, so they seemed to my 13 year old mind.
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