Reddit reviews Developing Youth Football Players

I would recommend this book: Developing Youth Football Players

It's the most influential book on kids soccer.

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Don't do to much static drills. Most of your training time should consist of small games.

A structure I often used for my training:

1. Confront them with a small game focussing on the topic of the day
   
2. Do a drill on the topic
   
3. Go back to a small game on the topic
   
4. Play a bigger game often with a special rule to provoke the topic and/or let them play freely
   
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   Focus on the basics in this age group: dribbling, receiving, passing, shooting and basic individual tactics and group tactics.
   
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   Don't do big games with all kids. Keep it small, 5vs5 should be max. Small games like this are ideal: Mini-Soccer
   
   Every kid has more actions with the ball and bigger games don't give you any advantages for the learning objectives in this age group.
   
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   Don't focus on winning games. The only question you should ask yourself about your playstyle should be how can my players learn the most and should never be how can we win this game.
   
   This will sometimes suck, because these two are often in direct contrast to each other.
   
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   Don't have set positions and rotate all players on all positions including goalkeeper.
   
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   That's just a few things off the top of my head.

The Official Coaching Book of KNVB is excellent
http://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Soccer-Official-Dutch-Association/dp/1890946044/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395697636&sr=8-1&keywords=KNVB+book

As is both of these books from Horst Wein:
Developing Youth Footballers
http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Youth-Football-Players-Horst/dp/0736069488/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395697714&sr=8-1&keywords=developing+youth+football+players

Developing Game Intelligence in Soccer
http://www.amazon.com/Developing-Game-Intelligence-Soccer-Horst/dp/1591640717/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395697768&sr=8-1&keywords=developing+game+intelligence+in+soccer

All three offer a great set of coaching guidelines, a solid philosophy and plenty of drills and simplified games for all age levels. The "Developing Youth Footballers" is used by the Spanish football federation.

Might also find The Philosophies of Louis van Gaal and the Ajax Coaches worth a read, as someone else mentioned, Teambuilding by Michels is like reading the Bible.

Also check out zonalmarking.net he has a list of many, many great books on there, most of which I've read.

Guillem Balaque has a few good books that aren't coaching guideline type books but I found both to be worth reading, "A Season on the Brink" about Rafa's Champions League season with Liverpool and his more recent "Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning" is very inspiring, I could not put it down, really, fantastic book makes you want to quit your real job and coach 24/7.